Virginia Postrel Quotes

The Internet exposes a diversity of opinion, experience, and taste we'd been led to believe didn't exist. If you were unusual in 1950 or 1980 - and everyone is unusual in one way or another - you were an isolated anomaly. Now you're a Web ring, a Yahoo category.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ExperienceDiversityOpinionBelieve

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Jessamyn West

ImaginationRealityFictionTruths

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

John F. Kennedy

ManDieFallRiseMayIdea

As any Brit will understand, things get a little easier when you don't have to be number one any more. Really, the fall of an empire is not as bad as everyone thinks. It's like retirement. People fear retirement, but it can turn out be rather pleasant.

John Oliver

FearPeopleRetirementYouFallBad

There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.

Amy Lee

LifeMusicExperienceSpiritualBand

Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would.

Alyssa Milano

BusinessTimeCultureMenMeCareer

I want my audience to be my friends - that is when they will get the best comedy. If they see me as a performer, they won't get the best show.

Trevor Noah

BestMeComedyFriendsWantWill

You can do too much and oversell your market.

Roger Daltrey

YouToo MuchMarketYourMuchToo

Just as there are many Jews who keep the Friday ritual in their home despite describing themselves as atheists, I am a 'tribal Christian,' happy to attend church services.

Martin Rees

HomeI AmHappyFridayChurchKeep

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Louis D. Brandeis

FearWomenAloneHistoryMenFree

I want to get up and celebrate something - and why not celebrate being a woman?

Dawn Richard

WomanCelebrateWantWhyUpGet

I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country.

Corrine Brown

CountryVeteransWhereComeRichest

We're so surrounded by so much of this marketing and just being told on a regular basis that you have to like this, you will go here, you want this. I found that to me that fit perfectly into what a theme park of dinosaur would be about.

Colin Trevorrow

MeYouMarketingGoWantDinosaur

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