Tim Minchin Sayings

#1. As Tim Minchin put it in his song "If I Didn't Have You": Your love is one in a million; You couldn't buy it at any price. But of the 9.999 hundred thousand other loves, Statistically, some of them would be equally nice.

Randall Munroe

#2. Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can break hearts.

Tim Minchin

#3. Science adjusts its views based on what's observed
Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

Tim Minchin

#4. Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark.

I.L. Peretz

#5. Define yourself by what you love

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#6. 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.

Tim Minchin

#7. A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

Tim Minchin

#8. You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.

Tim Minchin

#9. There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.

Tim Minchin

#10. Failure was part of the path. It was worth the risk. In fact, it was a critical component of growth. By sharing it with our users, we were showing our ultimate confidence in ourselves and our success. We weren't quitting, and we hoped our faith would inspire theirs.

Biz Stone

#11. I'll kill you with my own hands rather than let you put the mark of Cain on my brother!

Abraham Polonsky

#12. If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.

Oswald Chambers

#13. 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.

Tim Minchin

#14. To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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#15. 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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#16. It's the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days

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#17. It's an incredibly exciting thing, this one meaningless life of yours

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#18. 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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#19. The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.

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#20. I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me

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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. I will never come around to the idea of an anthropomorphic God. I'm also uncomfortable with the word 'God' ... I'm agnostic about the answer and I'm agnostic about the question.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#24. Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic..

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#25. [O]nce you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don't gotta believe nothin' you don't like.

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#26. Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.

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#27. 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.

Tim Minchin

#28. 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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#29. Love without evidence is stalking.

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#30. 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.

Tim Minchin

#31. What remains is solitude.

Marlene Dietrich

#32. 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.

Tim Minchin

#33. Who's the world going to revolve around now?

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