Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat…. Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.
TIM MINCHINBe demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love.
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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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I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world?
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Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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Science adjusts its views based on what’s observed.
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Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.
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We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs.
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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