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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Most of us are so busy trying to manage, maintain, or even just survive our life situation, that we don't make time to focus on what's most important - our LIFE.
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I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride.
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There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.
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Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.
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I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is not being pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is trusting the individual to make the right decision for herself and her family, and not entrusting that decision to anyone wearing the authority of government in any regard.
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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.
