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.
DAR WILLIAMSThe pendulum usually swings from left to right and then right to left, but there are so many people in power who have taken the pendulum and just pinned it to the right that there is a fear that it’s never going to swing back.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.
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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 pendulum usually swings from left to right and then right to left, but there are so many people in power who have taken the pendulum and just pinned it to the right that there is a fear that it’s never going to swing back.
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What was nice about the nineties is that it was an example of music that responded to a desire of the times. It spoke to the social conditions of the times.
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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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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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I remember doing “As Cool As I Am” and Steve Miller, the producer, saying “I really hear a drum loop here. I want to play it for you.”
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Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
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It’s a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn’t send it.
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I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
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If you’re looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you’ve got to go to Wisconsin.
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I am one of those sort of “lesser” types, those sensitive types, those people who wouldn’t have made it on their own if other people hadn’t helped them.
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And you bring your words, But you’re just like them, You’re unprepared ‘Cause you don’t know the terrain
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The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
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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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