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I think the success of any brand reboot is to acknowledge the heritage but to embrace and interpret it in a way that makes it relevant and wearable to the modern consumer. ”
The fact that we have 7 days of the week can be traced to the Babylonian and Jewish civilisations, with the first documented reference dating to 600BC. ”
You might think that modern chiropractors restrict themselves to treating back problems, but in fact they still possess some quite wacky ideas. The fundamentalists argue that they can cure anything. And even the more moderate chiropractors have ideas above their station. ”
Some would argue that you're as successful as the company you keep. Certainly there is a connection between our friends and who we are. ”
I look for the hotels that have figured out the comfortable balance - a modern room that is well designed, and really clean sheets. ”
There are few words in Russian for the Western concept of 'law,' but there are legions of words for connections, helping people from one's neck of the woods. ”
Saddam Hussein admired, studied, and copied Stalin, the paragon of modern dictators. ”
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism. ”
What really counts isn't whether your instrument is Baroque or modern: it's your mindset. ”
Digital music boils down the actual musical experience. ”