Rick Perlstein Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I’m willing to overlook gobs of mistaken detail if the poetic valence is basically correct. – Rick Perlstein Basically Quotes Correct Quotes Fictioneering Quotes Follow Quotes Gobs Quotes Historian Quotes Historical Quotes Inaccuracy Quotes Mistaken Quotes Overlook Quotes Personally Quotes Poetic Quotes Principle Quotes Shakespeare Quotes Speaking Quotes Storyteller Quotes Valence Quotes The history of American higher education over the twentieth century is an extraordinary one, the story of the creation of a powerhouse set of institutions that are the envy of the civilized world. Once they were the province, both among the student and faculty bodies, of children of privilege, generally WASPs. I’m a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event – and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I am.
Ephraim Mirvis When someone denies the right of Israel to exist, it hurts us, just as an attack on a close member of our family would hurt us. – Ephraim Mirvis
Lorne Michaels If a culture doesn’t allow you to laugh at the leaders or at things that your eyes and ears tell you are actually happening, that’s not good. – Lorne Michaels
CarKen Jennings If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I’m sort of screwed. I’m going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time. – Ken Jennings
Matt Bellamy I have recurring nightmares about being in a Nazi concentration camp with all my family and constantly being sent to solitary confinement. – Matt Bellamy
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