Virginia Postrel Quotes
Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
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I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I wanted to create flats that are as chic as heels - flats you don't have to apologize for.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.
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I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart.
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School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences.
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.
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It's beauty that captures your attention. Personality which captures your heart.
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Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.
