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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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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Elvis was a symbol of the country's vitality, rebelliousness, and good humor.
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You have to give that team some credit. Three-point shooting is not an easy task.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.
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Net neutrality is the idea that Internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all traffic that goes through their networks the same, not offering preferential treatment to some websites over others or charging some companies arbitrary fees to reach users.
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Anything you loved, however intensely, becomes mortifying the moment you cease to love it.
