Virginia Postrel Quotes
How we feel about the evolving future tells us who we are as individuals and as a civilization: Do we search for stasis-a regulated, engineered world? Or do we embrace dynamism-a world of constant creation, discovery, and competition?
Quotes to Explore
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
I still have a young attitude.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
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There is nothing that art cannot express.
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We need to get used to seeing humans with antennas sticking out of their heads.
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It is legal because I wish it.
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I think gossip and scandal is something from Western culture that has pervaded the rest of the world.
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How we feel about the evolving future tells us who we are as individuals and as a civilization: Do we search for stasis-a regulated, engineered world? Or do we embrace dynamism-a world of constant creation, discovery, and competition?
