Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
DAR WILLIAMSAnd you bring your words, But you’re just like them, You’re unprepared ‘Cause you don’t know the terrain
More Dar Williams Quotes
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Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.
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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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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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There’s always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn’t play.
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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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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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We have evolved to understand that language of power that’s taken too much.
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And where does magic come from? I think that magic’s in the learning.
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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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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 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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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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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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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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Things are important to you and then they recede within a day. That’s the only thing that keeps me from believing that there’s going to be any one organic big wave; although the Americana (music) thing has been happening for a while.
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