Virginia Postrel Quotes

The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores do measure both specific knowledge and valuable thinking skills.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

KnowledgeSmartPeopleNot Perfect

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.

Jill Lepore

HistoryTryingWorthChooseKnow

The life of an entrepreneur is the life of a human. Some days are amazing. Some days are a struggle. A lot are in between. It's the same for all of us.

Andy Dunn

LifeStruggleAmazingEntrepreneur

For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

Maya Angelou

TimeBestI AmMeDoorsPerson

I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter.

Maurice Sendak

WritingWorryNothingWhyMatter

I don't have a journal; I write music.

Michael J. Willett

MusicJournalWriteI Write

Facts are neither Republican nor Democrat.

Trey Gowdy

FactsRepublicanDemocratNor

I don't know what pressures there are these days.

Trevor McDonald

KnowDaysPressures

The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.

Tommy Lee Jones

HurtYouTryAnythingFineSteal

When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong, as it turned out.

Tom Rachman

BusinessJournalismLateWrongNews

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

Mary Renault

FreedomBestMoneyThingsManyBuys

For me, a career highlight was being on 'Battlestar Galactica.' Roles like that don't come along very often.

Michael Trucco

MeCareerBeingAlongComeLike

My YouTube videos have literally millions of views... Yet I'm still airbrushed out of the BBC Stalinist revision of history; the chart shows have been instructed not to play my music!

Jonathan King

MusicHistoryPlayYouTubeOutBeen

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