Virginia Postrel Quotes

Our demand for good looks, expressed in the biting comments that ensue when public figures fall short of perfection, puts enormous pressures on these individuals and may screen out the otherwise qualified. If video killed the radio star, it may also be doing away with the homely politician.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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You know, I look at Britney Spears who can't even drive without paparazzi in her face, and if I ever get to that level, which I don't expect, but if it does happen and success does happen to come my way, then I'm going to be prepared.

Alyson Stoner

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The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.

Steve Albini

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Auto executives have shunned the limits-of-growth issues and concentrated nearly all their energies on the next quarter's sales and next year's models.

Stewart Udall

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Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.

Tracey Ullman

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I want the same standard applied to homosexuals as is applied to heterosexuals.

Rosie O'Donnell

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I think I'd like to be an owner of a Major League Baseball team.

Mitch McConnell

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I didn't think anyone was going to buy 'Do You Really Wanna Hurt Me?' It was really personal, not a hit record, I thought. I wanted us to sound completely different. Shows how much I knew.

Boy George

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To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.

Brandi Chastain

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I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challenging and riskier.

Seth Gabel

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Arsenal is a team that, even if they score two or three, people believe that at the end of the day, they might lose or draw. They have to learn to seal off games so that the opposition can't come back when they're one or two-nil up.

Nwankwo Kanu

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Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.

Rick Springfield

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I do my best to choose projects that I believe highlight different things or at least provide some sort of progression for people of color.

Kendrick Sampson

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