"Our demand for good looks, expressed in the……" — Virginia Postrel
"Our demand for good looks, expressed in the biting comments that ensue when public figures fall short of perfection, puts enormous pressures on these individuals and may screen out the otherwise qualified. If video killed the radio star, it may also be doing away with the homely politician."
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Virginia Postrel
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80 Quotes by Virginia Postrel
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Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.
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Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a…
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Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs…
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The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating…
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Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.
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European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities…
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At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things…
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Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.
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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…
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The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future…
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We know we need bosses and deadlines to help us get work done. But sometimes we can also use an…
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As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have…
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I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I…
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A lot of people don't realize that about 98 percent of the running I put in is anything but glamorous:…
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Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed…
— Paula Gunn Allen
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Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
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We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig…
— Ruth Pitter
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I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A…
— Ray Bradbury
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I’m not a mean person, but I have a capacity for it. I have the biting comment formed somewhere in…
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It was unbelievable seeing me as an action figure! In a few months, toddlers all around the country will be…
— Emma Watson
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If anything, as a general rule, the cheaper the movie the more creative the experience, generally speaking. Its not to…
— Alfred Molina
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I can't stop biting my nails. It's a bad habit of mine. I like anything to do with math and…
— Khleo
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Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the…
— Luis Fernando Verissimo
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Remember that postcard Grandpa sent us from Florida of that Alligator biting that woman's bottom? That's right, we all thought…
— Homer
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