"Why is our (US) government the only one in the civilized world with a stupid, short-term energy policy? Why do our elected officials consider a European or Japanese-type energy tax not only unpassable but undiscussable?"

-- Donella Meadows

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“Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.”
“There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.”
“I'm definitely not drawn to shooting on a stage, I'm just not.”
“Acting's always felt like a kind of creature that lays dormant and collects observations when I'm not working. And then when I'm actually doing it, it just rises up. But everything I do is more about curiosity and investigation than it is about performance.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There isn't anything in your life that cannot be changed.”
“America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its "dream" from Native Americans.”

Source : Paula Gunn Allen (1986). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, Boston : Beacon Press
“No one else can want for me. No one can substitute his act of will for mine. It does sometimes happen that someone very much wants me to want what he wants. This is the moment when the impassable frontier between him and me, which is drawn by free will, becomes most obvious. I may not want that which he wants me to want - and in this precisely I am incommunicabilis. I am, and I must be, independent in my actions. All human relationships are posited on this fact.”
“I sit, I think, I make some drawings. As a designer, you cannot retire totally.”

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