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Virginia Postrel Quotes

In 'The Future and Its Enemies,' I argue that individual creativity and enterprise are not only personally satisfying but socially good, producing progress and happiness. For celebrating creativity and happiness, I have been called a fascist by critics on both coasts.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Future Happiness Creativity

I don't want to be too power-hungry.

I designed a guitar for Ibanez and then they started manufacturing it - it's called the Jem - it's 26 years old and I still play it. As a kid I liked Les Pauls and Strats, but they had limitations for the kind of playing I wanted to do.

Guitar Play Kind Manufacturing Kid

We should all do what we can in our daily lives to remember that we are glorious and powerful.

Tracee Ellis Ross

Daily Remember Powerful Glorious Our

Dictators are interesting, no?

Interesting Dictators

I believe marriage is a human right, not a state right.

Martin O'Malley

Marriage Believe I Believe Right

The concept of muse is alien to me. To speak of a muse implies there is a couple in which one person is the objectified passive element - there to help the creative, active, often male part of the duo to create. A muse is very passive. Who wants a muse? I don't want a muse.

Luca Guadagnino

Creative Me Speak Help Alien Create

As a relatively young woman - I'm 33 - I hope to one day have a family and already have commitments. If and when I'm elected as an MP, I would face a choice: take my family with me to London each week or be apart for four, maybe five, nights a week.

Family Hope Day Woman Me Face

I'm interested in telling a story about a gay man and what he's going through as an artist and as a lonely, single gay man. I want to reveal what I know about loneliness.

Loneliness Man Story Lonely Artist

If you feel inside you are a woman, be a woman - no one can take that away from you, man. No one can make that feeling go away. If that's what you need to do to be complete, then no one has the right to tell you you can't do that.

Woman Man Feel You Feeling Go

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

Chuck Palahniuk

Life Mistake Trying You Birth Whole

The people with whom I've worked in the Special Operations community are more concerned with an individual's contribution to the team, and their ability to do their job exceptionally well, than their race or sexual preferences.

Community Job People Team Race More

We have to show support for artists who are trying to own things for themselves.

Support Trying Own Things Artists

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