Alexandra Petri Quotes
Success is like food caught in your teeth: much more noticeable when it happens to other people. If it happens to you, other people have to take you aside and say something.Alexandra Petri
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People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
P. Chidambaram -
I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.
Ibrahim Hooper -
Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'
Harriet Walter -
Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
Larry Page -
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Samuel Johnson
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I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.
Daisy Fuentes -
The Cause of God is not a theatrical display that is presented every hour, of which some new diversion may be asked for every day. If it were thus, the Cause of God would become mere child's play.
Baha'u'llah -
When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
Edgardo Osorio -
Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.
Usher -
I think, if you create the right economic framework in terms of government policy, that Saskatchewan can continue to succeed and grow. Instead of having people migrate from Saskatchewan, they will be migrating to Saskatchewan.
N. Murray Edwards -
I hate wasting people's time.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
I don't want to be involved with an actor because I know how they are. I've had problems in the past being with guys who haven't had any success or haven't made as much money, and it's very uncomfortable.
Kaley Cuoco -
I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.
Karin Slaughter -
People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
Karin Slaughter -
It annoys me a little when people try to be positive when I don't play my best. I play to win. I'm like that. I'm like any other player. I'm never happy.
Camilo Villegas
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I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.
Gary Neville -
We had an EP out and all of a sudden we find record companies are interested in us, and we're thinking, 'Oh, that's really nice, but we don't think we're ready for it.'
Debbi Peterson -
I always want to keep challenging myself to do something that I don't even have the foresight to know what it's going to be.
Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco -
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso -
I don't usually get star struck, but I met Sir Paul McCartney randomly on Sunset Boulevard a few years ago, and I lost it! I couldn't breathe, I couldn't think, and I didn't know how to speak. It was crazy. He was nice enough to talk to my family and me for 10 minutes, but I remember babbling away about nonsense.
Sterling Knight -
Success is like food caught in your teeth: much more noticeable when it happens to other people. If it happens to you, other people have to take you aside and say something.
Alexandra Petri