What I Wanna Know

Interviews With Fascinating People From Around The World

FEDERICO FAGGIN

FEDERICO FAGGIN

“The computer has no consciousness and no free will, but science is telling us that we are like a computer. This is the problem. This
must change.”

FEDERICO FAGGIN

“The computer has no consciousness and no free will, but science is telling us that we are like a computer. This is the problem. This
must change.”

Jill Greenberg

Jill Greenberg

"Political art, or any art, that has a message isn't going to fix anything, but it might remind people that these things are out there." Few artists get to toggle a line between working for the man and working against the man. Photographer Jill Greenberg, however, has...

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Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser

"The best artists work out of the desire to produce beauty, otherwise it's not real and something else. This intertwining of money, power, and status is a corruption of purpose." You may not recognize the name Milton Glaser, but you would most certainly recognize his...

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Sheila E.

Sheila E.

"I used to play until my hands would bleed... It got to the point where I had to warm up on a concrete wall, or a surface that was very strong, so that I could numb my hands before I went on stage because it was that painful." Her hands are bloody, her back is sore,...

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William Langewiesche

William Langewiesche

"I've come close to the possibility of getting killed occasionally...I've been mortared, I've had a house destroyed by rockets, I've been chuck bombed, I've been shot at. But whatever, it's not very frightening. "   William Langewiesche is a very lucky man....

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John Carlos

John Carlos

"If I don't stand and fight for change, then I'm part of the tyranny that's taking place. I refuse to succumb to being a second class citizen...You can't whitewash what God has planned for me in my life." The separation of sports and politics is a widely accepted...

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Ravi Zacharias

Ravi Zacharias

"Mahatma Gandhi said it, 'I like their Christ, I don't like their Christian.' Unfortunately, when Christendom has been hijacked and made into a state religion or a power institution it gets abused... Christianity is a commitment of surrender, not of power over...

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Gay Talese

Gay Talese

"When you're wearing a great suit you don't feel it, it fits you so perfectly because it's measured again and again to achieve a finality. That's what good writing is, it's well tailored." For the past 50 plus years, Gay Talese has been meticulously and painstakingly...

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James Randi

James Randi

 "They don't have any scruples on that, just like any other thief or burglar. A thief doesn't look at a house and think to pass it up because the family has just suffered a recent tragedy. No, he goes in and robs it anyway."   James Randi is a magician by...

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Waris Dirie

Waris Dirie

"I believe that it is my responsibility to use the attention I get to fight against the continuing practice of FGM. I don’t know if you can call that spirituality, but I feel physically connected to every single girl on this planet that still has to suffer...

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Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser

"The best artists work out of the desire to produce beauty, otherwise it's not real and something else. This intertwining of money, power, and status is a corruption of purpose." You may not recognize the name Milton Glaser, but you would most certainly recognize his...

read more
Sheila E.

Sheila E.

"I used to play until my hands would bleed... It got to the point where I had to warm up on a concrete wall, or a surface that was very strong, so that I could numb my hands before I went on stage because it was that painful." Her hands are bloody, her back is sore,...

read more
William Langewiesche

William Langewiesche

"I've come close to the possibility of getting killed occasionally...I've been mortared, I've had a house destroyed by rockets, I've been chuck bombed, I've been shot at. But whatever, it's not very frightening. "   William Langewiesche is a very lucky man....

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John Carlos

John Carlos

"If I don't stand and fight for change, then I'm part of the tyranny that's taking place. I refuse to succumb to being a second class citizen...You can't whitewash what God has planned for me in my life." The separation of sports and politics is a widely accepted...

read more
Ravi Zacharias

Ravi Zacharias

"Mahatma Gandhi said it, 'I like their Christ, I don't like their Christian.' Unfortunately, when Christendom has been hijacked and made into a state religion or a power institution it gets abused... Christianity is a commitment of surrender, not of power over...

read more
Gay Talese

Gay Talese

"When you're wearing a great suit you don't feel it, it fits you so perfectly because it's measured again and again to achieve a finality. That's what good writing is, it's well tailored." For the past 50 plus years, Gay Talese has been meticulously and painstakingly...

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James Randi

James Randi

 "They don't have any scruples on that, just like any other thief or burglar. A thief doesn't look at a house and think to pass it up because the family has just suffered a recent tragedy. No, he goes in and robs it anyway."   James Randi is a magician by...

read more
Waris Dirie

Waris Dirie

"I believe that it is my responsibility to use the attention I get to fight against the continuing practice of FGM. I don’t know if you can call that spirituality, but I feel physically connected to every single girl on this planet that still has to suffer...

read more
Robert Fowler

Robert Fowler

 "Celine Dion has a huge international following...So, it isn't surprising that a Senegalese man would know of, and admire, her. But, to have this come from an Al-Qaeda captor in the Sahara Desert, some weeks into our captivity, was so bizarre."    ...

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