Virginia Postrel Quotes

As borrowers, we may feel guilty about running up debt, anxious about making payments, and resentful of the constraints that old obligations (and old credit records) impose on our current choices. We may find it too easy to buy things we may later regret.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white cultural groups that had also suffered in socio-economic terms from the Civil War and its aftermath.

Jim Webb

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Where I came from, sports were the only way to get out front.

Joe Namath

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No live performance can ever be perfect, and that's what keeps you on your toes - it pushes you to practice harder, show up for that 8 A.M. ballet class, and walk through the stage door every night just to have the chance to do it all again.

Andrew Keenan-Bolger

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He's one of the best fighters in the UFC. I never thought I'd face Nick Diaz. I've watched all his fights.

Anderson Silva

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We definitely need to get the excitement back.

Robert Mondavi

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I can't think of a better place to be than Scottsville, Virginia.

Robert Hurt

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I do remember going shopping with my mother; I think the name of the store was Ruth Atkins. I don't know why I can remember that. It's probably because it's not the name.

Jeffrey Tambor

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As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor.

Simon McBurney

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When I think about privacy on social media sites, there's kind of the usual suspect problems, which doesn't make them any less important or severe; it's just we kind of know their shape, and we kind of know how we're going to solve them.

Jonathan Zittrain

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When people get into that fight-or-flight place, then they move away from the creative centers of their brain.

Chip Conley

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Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.

Bow Wow

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I've criticized President Bush for his failure to use his veto pen. There's plenty of blame to go around. The question is how to solve problems. It's not bailouts. What made America great? Free markets, free enterprise, manufacturing, job creation. That's how we're gonna do it, not by enlarging government.

Scott Brown

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