Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world
DAR WILLIAMSI really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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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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A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to “As Cool As I Am,” it’s not all that different from what you were hearing from Ani DiFranco and some of the other indie women artists of the time. It was still in that context, still seen as folk music.
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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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Choices you made about how you recorded and what instruments you used and how much real versus how much synthetic. Those were choices that were seen as very political at the time.
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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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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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Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.
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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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All the things you treasure most will be the hardest won I will watch you struggle long before the answers come But I won’t make it harder, I’ll be there to cheer you on I’ll shine the light that guides you down the road you’re walking on
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I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
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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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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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And where does magic come from? I think that magic’s in the learning.
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