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I drive around on my scooter in Milan alone - we don't have bodyguards or anything like that. I am a fashion designer, not a celebrity, and although I get stopped for autographs and the like, I don't think I am famous.

Stefano Gabbana

When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and you'd go, what did you just play... immediately inspirational writings, amazing. That's what we're going to miss.

Robin Gibb

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.

Jon Crosby

If you look at the requirements for just one piece, like art, from one generation of games to the next, it will change radically. You need people who are adaptable because the thing that makes you the best in the world in one generation of games is g...

Gabe Newell

Those who love him love that he sells the most art; they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.

Jerry Saltz

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

I know not by what power I am drawn to you, but it is as a moth is drawn to the flame, and I cannot fight it, I must be consumed.

His Last Mistress

The truth is often so much more complicated than the digest version that's handed down to us.

Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing

Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

The Holy State and the Profane State

If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by

Innocent Traitor

But they also awarded a quite respectable 55th place to Enoch Powell, thereby demonstrating that, for certain sections of the population, being an unpleasant racist constitutes no bar to greatness.

Kings and Castles

Here, Mortimer Wheeler thought, is power. And a reminder of our mortality.

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

Historical reality has two sides. One is made ​​up of facts, events, material realities, and one of the ideas, images and dreams.

The Medieval Imagination

[S]ince the dawn of civilization, getting in-laws has been one of marriage's most important functions.

Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage

Richard Nixon was a serial collector of resentments.

Nixonland: America's Second Civil War and the Divisive Legacy of Richard Nixon 1965-72

Shoes are stupid. Why do people wear them?" -Bliss He laughed, "So they don't step on a nail and get tetanus, that's why." -Cade "Wear. Where. Wear. W's are wwweeird."-Bliss

Losing It

The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.

Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

[...] what's the use of lying down to die as long as we can stand up and walk.

Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival

Open Everything' is everything--it is our mind, our heart, our soul, our destiny.

The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust

In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order.

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

Federal Officer: "The arms piled on the ground were not worth 10 cents a ton.

Touring Virginia's and West Virginia's Civil War Sites