Top 26 Tim Minchin Quotes
#1. Who's the world going to revolve around now?
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#2. Respect people with less power then you. I don't care if you're the most powerful cat in the room, I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.
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#3. I am no nihilist. I am not even a cynic. I am, actually, rather romantic. And here's my idea of romance: You will soon be dead. Life will sometimes seem long and tough and, god, it's tiring. And you will sometimes be happy and sometimes sad. And then you'll be
old. And then you'll be dead.
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#5. Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? 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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#6. The more you know, the harder you will find it to make up your mind, it doesn't really matter if you find it. You can't see which grass is greener, chances are it's neither and either way it's easier to see the difference when you're sitting on the fence.
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#7. Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.
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#8. [O]nce you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don't gotta believe nothin' you don't like.
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#9. Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic..
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#10. I don't go in for ancient wisdom
I don't believe just 'cos ideas are tenacious it means they're worthy
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#11. I don't know what it is about "magic happens"-stickers on cars but every time I see one I wanna get out my permanent marker and sneak over and write underneath it "so does cot death".
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#12. I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me
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#13. The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.
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#14. Burning a book is like burning a bra. After the adrenalin rush of the symbolic moment wears off, all you're left with is a pile of ashes and unsupported boobs.
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#15. Science adjusts its views based on what's observed
Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
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#17. Understanding that you can't truly take credit for your successes, nor truly blame others for their failures will humble you and make you more compassionate.
Empathy is intuitive, but is also something you can work on, intellectually.
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#18. A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience
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#19. You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.
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#20. There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.
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#21. Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can break hearts.
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#22. 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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#23. To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
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#24. We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love. Be demonstrative and generous in your praise of those you admire. Send thank-you cards and give standing ovations. Be pro-stuff, not just anti-stuff.
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#25. It's the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days
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#26. It's an incredibly exciting thing, this one meaningless life of yours
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