Virginia Postrel Quotes

Y2K hype taps our native discomfort with the realities of a dynamic, evolving social order. It elevates personal, local contact over the impersonality of the 'extended order' of trade and technological networks. It suggests that we can wipe the slate clean and start from scratch.

Virginia Postrel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

StartPersonalCleanOverDiscomfort

You have to live in reality: not in what might happen but what is happening.

Jimmy John Liautaud

LiveRealityYouHappenHappening

Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.

Anna Friel

YouActHidingTakeSecondEither

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.

Maurice Gibb

AloneTogetherSongYouWriteHard

My fan base just growing and growing. People know that I'm not just coming and going. They know that I'm here to stay.

Shy Glizzy

PeopleGrowingKnowComingGoing

What's interesting was with all the shows I did on Broadway, I was either the dance captain or the assistant choreographer - I sort of worked my way up to that kind of thing - and I always was interested in more than just the dancers and the numbers. I would always sneak into the room and watch the scene work.

Rob Marshall

WorkDanceInterestingNumbersKind

It took a little over a decade to build a coalition strong enough to beat the insurance companies, but in 1990, then Senator Tom Daschle and I passed a law regulating the private market for supplemental Medicare insurance policies.

Ron Wyden

LawStrongEnoughInsuranceBuild

I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life.

Martina Hingis

LifeGoodMy LifeAnticipationBall

The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it felt like a lifetime, but really it was kind of evolutionary.

Mitch Kapor

TimeDecisionStartKindCompany

If you aren't rich you should always look useful.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

RichYouLookAlwaysUsefulShould

You're not supposed to get rattled in poker; you're supposed to remain poker-faced!

Jason Gedrick

YouPokerGetSupposedRemain

Whether you're throwing up or breaking up, you want your girlfriend right there! I don't trust women who don't go to their girlfriends.

Drew Barrymore

WomenTrustYouGoWantRight

I learned that you can constantly improve, and that you should not be shy about your views, and about the direction that you believe is right.

Christine Lagarde

BelieveDirectionYouShyRight

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