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?
TIM MINCHINOnce you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don’t gotta believe nothin’ you don’t like.
More Tim Minchin Quotes
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There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don’t hear them whinging.
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The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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Who’s the world going to revolve around now?
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It is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.
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It’s the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one.
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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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Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.
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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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Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.
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I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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There is great wisdom in this… but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.
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