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Virginia Postrel Quotes

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Imagination Lie World Place True

In the time I've spent in public life, one of the things I've learned is that some issues look a lot different when you're actually in office compared to when you're on the campaign trail.

Life Time You Look Trail Office

In government, our chief executives have been lawyers. The great majority of our cabinets and congresses are and have been men trained in the law. They have provided the leadership and the statecraft and the store of strength when it was needed.

Strength Leadership Great Men Law

The love I have for my husband is intertwined with his, and we are two individuals looking in the same direction - as opposed to staring in each other's eyes all the time.

Love Eyes Time Looking Husband Same

I've tried to tell a story. For me, it is the best one.

Best Me Story Tell Tried

I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.

Football Politics Election Three Try

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

Failure True Try Never Afraid

My father came to the U.S. from Lebanon in 1920 when he was 8 without knowing a word of English. He traveled to Green Bay, Wis., married, bought a house, and he and my mom, Helen, raised 10 kids. Everything depended on his one-man business driving a truck.

Father Business Mom Green Truck

So many great singers we know have come from the church.

Great Church Know Come Singers Many

I can't stand stupid, and I can't stand slow.

Stupid Slow Stand

'Sing It Again Rod' touches all the solo bases since Stewart's departure from the Jeff Beck Band, wherein he cut his teeth on American audiences for $75 a week plus expenses, and wisely ignores his generally inferior work with the Faces.

Work American Week Teeth Band Solo

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

Dorothy Allison

Women Think Movement Been Would

I've spent enough time in the business community to know there are certain regulators who are very constructive in their approach - those who enforce the laws and who actually want to help you comply - and there are others who have a prosecutorial attitude.

Attitude Business Community Time You

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