Virginia Postrel Quotes

Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place. And this is one reason that modes of transportation tend to be extremely glamorous. The less experience we have with them, the more glamorous they are. So you can do a glamorized picture of a car, but you can't do a glamorized picture of traffic.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CarExperienceWorldPictureYou

Very little other than Elmore Leonard's crime writing inspiring me on my Batman run.

Jim Starlin

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Hulk Hogan slamming Andre the Giant. I remember watching WrestleMania with my family and friends on TV... 93,000 people in the Silverdome. When Hogan picked up Andre, I got goosebumps.

John Cena

FamilyPeopleFriendsRememberUp

We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

Jeff Bezos

IdeasCustomerThreeFirstReason

I'm not someone who believes in wasting my vote.

Robert Carlyle

SomeoneVoteWhoWastingBelieves

I love Hallmark movies because they make movies that you don't see anymore... and at a time when there is so much evil in the world, it's kind of nice to be able to retreat to something like a Hallmark Movies and Mysteries.

Rita Moreno

LoveTimeEvilWorldYouNice

It's better to make people laugh than cry.

Ronnie Barker

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We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side.

Michel Patini

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Like the American soldiers who went before them, they are putting their lives on the line to protect ours.

Doc Hastings

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One of my biggest supporters is Gerry Briscoe.

Diamond Dallas Page

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There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate.

Chaz Bono

PeopleBrainGenderBodyComplicated

My point of view is that men are basically animals, and I'm okay with that.

Bryan Callen

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Precariousness is not just a working-class thing.

Alissa Quart

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