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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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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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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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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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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Sometimes in the moment when I'm doing a press conference, one of my favorite things is to watch reporters.
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There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.
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It's a beacon of hope in a dark world. You watch 'The Muppets' and you're smiling for an hour and a half, and then you go outside, and the economy is in crisis.
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My family was perfect.
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All comedy does that. Every comedian I can think of - Larry David, Seinfeld, Mel Brooks, Chris Rock - that's where the best comedy comes from, from stereotypes.
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There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
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Meat-fetishiser that I was, I used to find willed vegetarianism inexplicable. It was one thing to be a vegetarian because of religious and caste reasons - something I was familiar with because of my Indian upbringing - but to choose to be a vegetarian when you could eat meat for every meal every day? That seemed madness to me.
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I think that both pornography and the imposition (common in some areas of the world) of a dress code on women are problematic.
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Anything you loved, however intensely, becomes mortifying the moment you cease to love it.
