Virginia Postrel Quotes
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
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I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with serendipitous communications and photo collections. Work is about managing tasks and responding to things quickly.
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Stephenie Meyer + Science = wrong!
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Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
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I used to be very scared of silence because I felt it was my responsibility to keep people occupied. That definitely spawns from an insecurity in myself. When people aren't enjoying themselves, when I'm involved, it somehow comes back to it being my fault. But I do want people to have a good time.
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I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me.
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Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.
