When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
DAR WILLIAMSIt’s a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn’t send it.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you’re worth?
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Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.
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For my 50th birthday I just want to make it all make sense [being exactly half introvert], and then a couple of weeks later do the blow-out with all my friends.
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I have odometer readings, kids; all sorts of measurements of what I’ve been doing for the last 20 years. I get it. I get that it was a while ago.
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The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman Empire, the British Empire, and the Nazi empire all have things in common.
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I would push for more production and Steve Miller would say, “Why do you want to have more production when you have real songs? You don’t want to cover up the song.”
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I am happy to do political fundraisers. I always hope that my friends will be, too. It’s part of who you are and you shouldn’t feel ashamed of what you believe in.
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I have a sordid past.
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A straightforward capitalist society would’ve cut them off and let them die. So I was saved by my friends and by my family and by people who cared about me, and by modern psychotherapy that cared about women.
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They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won’t do a better job of it.
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I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
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I went from having three little jobs that I strung together to being on the road full-time; having some savings that my managers told me to spend.
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And I’ll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.
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We have evolved to understand that language of power that’s taken too much.
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Women were making more money. Women were saying, “My voice counts. If we’re going out on a Friday night, I don’t want to see a Rambo movie. I want to go see a singer/songwriter who sings about my life”.
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