Tim Minchin Quotes

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

  Tim Minchin

  Inspirational, Dream, Waste

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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, I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.

  Tim Minchin

  Graduation, Powerful, Cat

  Tim Minchin's Commencement Address at the University of Western Australia in Perth, Australia, www.timminchin.com. September 25, 2013.

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• 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?

  Tim Minchin

  Beautiful, Men, Attention

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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. 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.

  Tim Minchin

  Passion, Love Is, Giving

  Tim Minchin's Commencement Address at The University of Western in Perth, Western Australia, www.timminchin.com. September 25, 2013.

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• It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.

  Tim Minchin

  Exciting, Meaningless Life, Exciting Things

  Tim Minchin 's Commencement Address at The University of Western in Perth, Western Australia, www.timminchin.com. September 25, 2013.

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• Love without evidence is stalking.

  Tim Minchin

  Stalking, Evidence

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one. 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.We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs. Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat.... Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege.

  Tim Minchin

  Thinking, Ideas, Bats

  "Have a heart". "The Science Show", www.abc.net.au. October 12, 2013.

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

  Tim Minchin

  Honesty, Views, Denial

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• Define yourself by what you love.

  Tim Minchin

  Define Yourself, What You Love

  Tim Minchin's Commencement Address at The University of Western in Perth, Western Australia, www.timminchin.com. September 25, 2013.

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• If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able to show either empirically or logically 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.

  Tim Minchin

  Spiritual, Believe, Race

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• A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

  Tim Minchin

  Genius, Ill, Audience

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• Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.

  Tim Minchin

  Understanding, Acquisition, Body

  Tim Minchin's Commencement Address at The University of Western in Perth, Western Australia, www.timminchin.com. September 25, 2013.

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

  Tim Minchin

  Yoga, Yoga Mats

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

  Tim Minchin

  Magic, Mystery

  Song: Storm

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• It's the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days

  Tim Minchin

  Alcohol, Balance, Fine

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• Por favor, no cometas el error de pensar que las artes y las ciencias están reñidas. Esa es una idea reciente, estúpida y perjudicial. No hay que ser acientífico para hacer arte bello o escribir cosas bellas... la ciencia no es un conjunto de conocimientos ni un sistema de creencias, es sólo un término que describe la adquisición gradual de conocimientos por parte de la humanidad a través de la observación. La ciencia es asombrosa. Las artes y las ciencias tienen que trabajar juntas para mejorar la forma de comunicar el conocimiento.

  Tim Minchin

  Beautiful, Art, Stupid

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

  Tim Minchin

  Medicine, Alternatives, Natural Healing

  Song: Storm

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• Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.

  Tim Minchin

  Entrepreneur, Empathy, Intuitive

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• Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don't gotta believe nothin' you don't like.

  Tim Minchin

  Believe, Source, Evidence

  "Tim Minchin: Mocking God in the heart of Texas" by Tim Minchin, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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

  Tim Minchin

  Hate, Body, Bad Word

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• Who's the world going to revolve around now?

  Tim Minchin

  Mundo

  "A Problem Like Matilda". Interview with Michael Schulman, www.newyorker.com. April 1, 2013.

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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.

  Tim Minchin

  Believe, Afterlife, Piano

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• Sólo un pelirrojo puede llamar pelirrojo a otro pelirrojo.

  Tim Minchin

  Jengibre

  Song: Prejudice

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• Si tuviera una religión, su deidad sería Audysseus, el Dios del sonido, y sería un dios vengativo, que repartiría la condenación eterna a la gente con monitores de escenario baratos.

  Tim Minchin

  People, Sound, Damnation

  "Tim Minchin: Mocking God in the heart of Texas" by Tim Minchin, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?

  Tim Minchin

  World, Enough, This World

  Song: Storm

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