Mahican History Quotes & Sayings

Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to realize that the new comes from here and gets imitated elsewhere. And it is not thanks to universities, which obviously claim a lot more credit than their accomplishments warrant. Like Britain in the Industrial Revolution, America's asset is, simply, risk taking and the use of optionality, this remarkable ability to engage in rational forms fo trial and error, with no comparative shame in failing again, starting again, and repeating failure. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit- a spirit that demands self-expression . — Thurgood Marshall

I'd like to do a reality show with four white people ... who are dropped off in a really bad black neighborhood. And the show would be called ... Cracker Hunt. — Zach Galifianakis

David Cronenberg's 'Maps to the Stars' is a Hollywood monster movie in which Hollywood is the monster. — Steve Erickson

I work to Glenn Gould in the morning and go to sleep listening to Parsifal. — Patti Smith

They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.' — Nate Berkus

When Hawk Delgado, Lee Nightingale, Luke Stark and Kane Allen entered a room, you took notice. — Kristen Ashley

Leaving home does something to your sense of identity. Either you become more of that place than you ever were while you lived there, or your identity calcifies around the rejection of this place. It is challenging to inhabit the space between these two positions. — Sari Botton

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling. — Holly Near

I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities. — Lisa Yuskavage