Quotes about "Indigenous Wisdom"

Laws, especially those of a constitutional nature like the Basic Law, which have been formulated through reasonable legislative processes, should never be freely interpreted or lightly abandoned. ”

It creates community when you talk about private things. ”

So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life. ”

The value of kitsch exists in its novelty and in its connotations to more legitimate counterparts. ”

It turns out I'm not very good at working with a traditional boss. ”

It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me want to write songs again. I began to feel I was in my head too much about music, too analytical. ”

I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it's how I get a lot of thinking done. ”

A Long Way Gone' says something about human nature that we try, most of the time, to ignore. ”

Boy, when you come to study something, and you come to understand it - you know, even if it's just a little discovery that you make, and you come to understand it on your own, it feels it's like the greatest high. It's like you just have found some incredibly secretive thing about nature. ”

There's nothing in this world like being the first to discover some fundamental fact of nature. It's profoundly satisfying. ”