We need to teach our kids that it's not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated, but the winner of the science fair; that success is not a function of fame or PR, but of hard work and discipline.
In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.
Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it's this veneer—that the designers are handed this box and told, "Make it look good!" That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
I'm thinking of starting my own talk radio show. I'll spout simplistic opinions for hours on end, ridicule anyone who disagrees with me, and generally foster divisiveness, cynicism, and a lower level of public dialog!
Well, crying isn’t gonna bring him back ... unless your tears smell like dog food. So you can either sit there crying and eating can after can of dog food until your tears smell enough like dog food to make your dog come back or you can go out there and find your dog.
I’m a really claustrophobic person to begin with. I hate elevators, especially crammed elevators. I get really scared. So I think that it’s very definitely scary when girls are all around me and I can’t go anywhere. At the same time, I guess I got to get used to it, you know what I mean?
I'm not trying to prove to anybody that I'm going to be here for 30 years. You either are or you're not. You either have passion for it, or you don't. It's either important for you to stop, and buy a condo, and have babies, and marry a rich actor, or not do any of that, and continue to make music and art, and die alone.
Young people [in France] don’t think badly about America—we’re American in our heads. We watch all the U.S. television series: Gossip Girl, Glee, Vampire Diaries. ... But no flip-flops. We’re not ready for that yet. It’s still too casual.
[Young people] are becoming more cosmopolitan because they are citizens of the world, living contemporary lives that are in tandem and no longer as a continuous fight among cultures.
In graduate school I decided to become gay. Many of my heroes were gay: I had thought Franz Kafka was gay ... Oscar Wilde was gay; ... Plato was gay. My best friend at the time, Robert Ramirez, was gay, and wanted me to be gay too. ... We danced at a gay bar ... with [a girlfriend of his] in the middle, and Robert and I kissed. Nothing. ... Later that night the girl and I had sex ... and Robert’s feelings were hurt that we didn’t ask him to join us. First he passed out and then he stormed out. I never spoke with the girl again. I abandoned the idea of being gay. William Butler Yeats was not gay.
Cricket is the fine ironwork of the gates at the end of Downing Street. It is the fabric of England’s ancient cathedrals, her circles of standing stones, and her countryside pubs with their pint glasses of Belgian lager. Cricket is Her Majesty’s Royal Train, carrying the Queen over our nation’s ancient, partly electrified but fully privatized railway network. It is a glorious, marvelous, English thing. That, my friends, is what the fuck cricket is.
