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And I’ll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.

Dar Williams

Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.
DAR WILLIAMS

Citing Favorite Thinking
Everyone has to decide how they’re going to appear in their lives, how they’re going to put themselves out there to the world.
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Appear Lives Themselves World
We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.
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Done Morning Up Wake
I came out of that and said I don’t want to go back to feeling depressed. So I asked myself, what can I be optimistic about, in terms of the course of the planet? And I discovered there was no end to the optimism I felt.
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Discover Feelings Optimism Optimistic
And I’ll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.
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Ends Faith Friend Have
Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world
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Echo Kindness Time
What happened on “As Cool As I Am” was, you know how in the ’90s, “the personal is political, the political is personal”? That was a really big thing.
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Choices Political Real
There’s always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn’t play.
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People Play Song
If you’re lucky you find something that reflects you, Helps you feel your life, protects you, Cradles you and connects you to everything.
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Everything Helping Life Lucky
I would encourage people to bridge broadly and creatively in their communities, not just because that creates the most fun and resiliency, but also because it creates the most points of access for people to be part of the community, which is what democracy is at its best.
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Bridges Fun People
There was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was no attempt.
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Cities Distance Honesty
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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Career Country Jobs
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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Friend Psychotherapy Society Straightforward
I’ve watched towns and cities evolve and become very resilient, and fun, and unique, and prosperous on their own terms. And the secret is bridging. It’s when the local church has a fun clothing swap fundraiser with a temple, and then the next year they bring in the mosque.
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Cities Fun Unique
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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Child Children Labor Slavery
One of them looked at me and shook her head, like “Don’t do that.” I think she was doing it to say, “It doesn’t work.” She didn’t say anything but it was this cautionary moment. I knew it didn’t work. There are just so many other words to choose from.
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Look Moment One Shook Work

And I’ll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.

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