Virginia Postrel Quotes
Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife.
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.
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If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
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The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.
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I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
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I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
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The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.
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I am an independent, strong-willed, free, and unfettered individual who lets his wife decide for him what he wants to eat.
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The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
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My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
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Our problem is not adopting reforms, which we will do without question. It is not reaching an objective, which we will meet. But it is finding an end to the recession.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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Trust me, I would love to have a wife and kids. I would very much enjoy that. But I also know that you have to be in the right place to do that.
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers.
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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
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Obscurity is just obscurity. There's no romance in obscurity.
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We have to find in Christ, not a mask that conceals our face, but an entire wardrobe of clothing, which is His righteousness.
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You call my Wall Street words "cuss words"... I call them "sentence enhancers".
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Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife.
