Alexandra Petri Quotes
Anything you loved, however intensely, becomes mortifying the moment you cease to love it.
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Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.
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Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.
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I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
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Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.
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I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come from places just like Shepperton, and so they built and lived in houses exactly like these. I now know I was drawn here because, on an unconscious level, Shepperton reminds me of Shanghai.
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If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.
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My life really began when I married my husband.
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The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.
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I think my dad is this great, wonderful... man with a lot of integrity, who is fighting for things he believes in and is serious in what he wants to see happen and serious in helping people.
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It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.
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In the cloud, customers don't want a six-month contract negotiation; that concept is absurd when you can implement a cloud-based suite from beginning to end in a month or a few months.
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Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?
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I am hopeful that one day I will meet that right man and will have a very happy life partner.
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There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic 'scientist', the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call 'epistemic arrogance', this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.
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The world is dark and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.
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Sexual Harassment Legislation often creates a hostile environment, an environment of female-as-child.
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There are men of the East, he said, who are the East. There are men of a province who are that province. There are men of a valley who are that valley.
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Every body in light and shade fills the surrounding air with infinite images of itself; and these, by infinite pyramids diffused in the air, represent this body throughout space and on every side.
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You have to take what you could get when you're getting started.
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Let the psychotics take over. They alone understood what was happening.
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There's so much more to people than their differences.
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To live is to think.
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Trump's racism has clearly driven his policy decisions during his first year in office - from his Muslim ban and his despicable treatment of DREAMers to his ruthless ramp-up of immigration raids and the callous termination of protections for Haitians and Salvadorans who fled natural disaster and violence.
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Anything you loved, however intensely, becomes mortifying the moment you cease to love it.
