Quotes about "Indigenous Wisdom"

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way. ”

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community. ”

I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I'd pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my senior year of high school, I instead decided to attend M.I.T. I like to say I've had only two jobs in my life: whitewater canoeing instructor and wilderness guide in college, and C.E.O. of iRobot. ”

Building a robot that has legs and walks around is a very expensive proposition. Mother Nature has created many wonderful things, but one thing we do have that nature doesn't is the wheel, a continuous rotating joint, and tracks, so we need to make use of inventions to make things simpler. ”

Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason. ”

With the Internet, fans feel like they know you and I love that kind of connection. ”

There's not a lot of ego in the Broadway community. Everyone's out to do well. ”

I conceived of a concept, a project, a band. The Tide. The Tide, acting as a sonic exemplar of flow and fluidity. The way of things. The way of nature. Guitars, rock and surf music, psychedelia, transcendence from everyday bourgeois consciousness. ”

French designers are classic, chic, and traditional. ”

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. ”