I really lucked out with that song [“As Cool As I Am”]. Men were becoming much more comfortable with all the different facets and parts of their identity, including their gentler, funnier, sillier, nurturing parts. They started showing up.
DAR WILLIAMSGuiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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God looks like a guidance counselor, God’s got that smile. God says, ‘How could this be? That’s really odd I guess I’ll have to check my records, silly me, you know, I’m only God.’
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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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There’s always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn’t play.
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[Mortal City ] was also the beginning of the reality of the fact that I was going to have little pieces of my personality identifying with all of these different parts of the country.
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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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I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
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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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Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.
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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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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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Through the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to learn again Again, in this less hazy light I saw the fields beyond the fields The fields beyond the field
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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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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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