Virginia Postrel Quotes

In mid-July 2007, after a routine mammogram, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. As cancer diagnoses go, mine wasn't particularly scary. The affected area was small, and the surgeon seemed to think that a lumpectomy followed by radiation would eradicate the cancerous tissue.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I don't ever wanna come across too intimidating, so as long as I look like you can come up and give me a hug, that's good.

Jessica Simpson

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You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when you already know what you think.

John Bolton

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When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity.

Maximillian Degenerez

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I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.

Maurice Strong

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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

Ambrose Bierce

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What you learn growing up in a place like Buffalo is that your job isn't just your paycheck, it's your identity. It doesn't just give you dollars, it gives you dignity.

Tom Perez

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President Obama likes to say Guantanamo Bay is a terrorist recruiting tool, and while that may be an easy excuse, it's simply not true. The reality is the motivations of radical Islamic jihadism existed before Guantanamo Bay. The ideology is premised on a narrative of conquest, in the spiritual as well as the earthly world.

Tom Cotton

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This corridor is important to national security and important to the whole Northeast. So it's not just our own New Jersey transportation needs: it's the whole rail corridor here we're talking about.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

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I don't think I've ever had a conversation with a comedian who stole except for when it's been in anger.

Matt Besser

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We are Disney, in a sense. When you've been there for 20 years, there's a certain heart and soul to one of those films, and you inhabit that to a certain degree. So if it feels true to you, then your audience will hopefully go for it.

Roy Conli

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What I didn't appreciate about myself is that I'm good at coaching leaders.

Julia Hartz

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When I do things, like, with Josh Grobin, or he has so many fans, and I get people after my concerts, classical concerts, all the time coming back and saying, 'Never heard of you until I heard the song with Josh Grobin.' Then they're now classical music fans, which is something I think we need to reach a wider audience.

Joshua Bell

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