Virginia Postrel Quotes

Glamour invites us to live in a different world. It has to simultaneously be mysterious, a little bit distant - that's why, often in these glamour shots, the person is not looking at the audience, it's why sunglasses are glamorous - but also not so far above us that we can't identify with the person.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 14, 1960

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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

Andrew Young

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You can tell when you're in a hit.

Steve Guttenberg

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As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.

Steve Israel

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Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

Stephen Ambrose

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A lot of people don't believe there's evil. If there's good in this world, then you're being intellectually dishonest, if you believe there's a good power, you've also got to believe there's an evil power, too. There are physical laws that are in place.

Si Robertson

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One of the reasons why Spider-Man is my favorite superhero is because we both undergo big changes in our lives.

Tom Holland

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People think I'm rude. I'm not rude; I'm just not networking. It's just honesty.

Louise Wilson

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I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

Clyde Tombaugh

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My wife will act as the offensive coordinator at times during the evening. I'll have her read the full play to me. I'll sit there and try to picture it, spit it back out to her, make sure I'm verbalizing it the right way so that when I step into the huddle the next day in practice, things are coming out clear.

Brock Osweiler

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Look, I think by the time my case was over and other ones, everybody on both sides of the aisle in Congress said we can't run a government by this kind of process and they repealed the law and that's good.

Bruce Babbitt

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I'd love to play with Messi.

Paulo Dybala

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You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction.

Mark Pincus

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