Virginia Postrel Quotes

Average Americans order nonfat decaf iced vanilla lattes at Starbucks and choose from 1,500 drawer pulls at The Great Indoors. Amazon gives every town a bookstore with 2 million titles, while Netflix promises 35,000 different movies on DVD. Choice is everywhere - liberating to some, but to others, a new source of stress.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GreatStressPromisesChooseChoice

I hoped, hoped, that maybe I'd be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus.

Jennifer Garner

EnoughLuckyBroadwaySomething

This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.

Jennifer Granholm

MomAmericanPlacePresidentKid

First step: Build the wall. Second step: Let ICE do its job. Third step: Stop importing jihadists and welfare recipients. Fourth step: enforce e-verify to protect American jobs. Fifth step: prosecute social security card/ID theft/voting fraud.

Ann Coulter

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Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.

Tom Waits

MusicWordsNameSometimesChicago

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

Robin Williams

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President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one day their wages would be on par with that of their male counterparts.

Rosa DeLauro

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I've done a few jobs out there for the money, and I find those jobs have come back to haunt me.

Dean Winters

MoneyMeBackFindDoneOut

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

David Walliams

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I grew up on British fiction, and I write perhaps more directly out of that tradition.

Claire Messud

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They do say now in cycling that there's no such thing as bad weather - it's bad clothing.

Bradley Wiggins

WeatherBadNowSayClothingThing

When you micro-analyze the approval ratings, there's aspects, and the questions come in, 'I love the president, but I dislike X, Y, Z,' or 'I like the president but dislike X, Y, Z.'

Anthony Scaramucci

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You can make tough decisions that I believe voters for years have asked us to do.

Scott Walker

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