Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
TIM MINCHINWe have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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The existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race or ability to punish or reward humans for their moral choices or that there is any reason other than fear to believe in any version of an afterlife, I will give you my piano, one of my legs and my wife.
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If anyone can show me … that there is any reason – other than fear – to believe in any version of an afterlife, I’ll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife.
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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If I had a religion, its deity would be Audysseus, the sound God, and He would be a vengeful god, dishing out eternal damnation to people with cheap stage monitors.
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Science is not a body of knowledge or a belief system, it is just a term that describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation.
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat…. Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.
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You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art or to write beautiful things…
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? – Medicine.
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Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room,
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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