Virginia Postrel Quotes

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeWorkFutureChildrenCreativity

To distract myself from writing, I was singing Bob Dylan's 'My Back Pages.' You know, 'I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.' I thought, 'I should write a character like that.'

Andrew Sean Greer

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One of the most unusual shuttles operates at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Site in Texas, carrying visitors on a one and one-half hour trip past Johnson's birthplace, the family cemetery and ranch house, and through the ranch.

Michael Frome

FamilyPastTexasHouseThrough

Designer pricing should hurt, but it shouldn't kill you. You wince when you hand over your AmEx, but once you get it home, you never regret it. You divide it by how many days you're using it, and suddenly it becomes affordable.

Michael Bastian

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One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.

Michael Caine

SpeakSlowSpeedYouTwiceThings

I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.

Stephen Dorff

TeenWantKindNormalJustJust Be

If I was just trying to imitate an American or English singer, it would sound fake. I'm sure of it.

Stromae

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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Robert Collier

AdversityTimeWinVictorySeedYou

Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.

Tom Golisano

EducationHealthCareWorthMore

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

Marya Mannes

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I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

Loretta Lynn

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I've never liked having like a set kind of schedule of training. Even when I was doing guitar lessons, I never used to practice.

Dean Geyer

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If you don't deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it's gonna hurt.

Nikki Sixx

HurtDemonsYouWillDealYour

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