Alexandra Petri Quotes
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I've never been into the typical R&B voice, with runs and bluesy sounding words. That doesn't suit me.
FKA twigs
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I write exactly what I think. If it's a raw subject, I write lots of things and then pull out all the fluff words.
FKA twigs
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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It's not up to the employer to decide or to figure out what religious problems you may have as an employee. In other words, if I'm inquiring about your religious peculiarities or whatever they may be, I'm invading your privacy about that.
Wayne Rogers
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I see people having fits because their coffee is too hot or their baked potato is too cold, or some random something is imperfect and somebody can be blamed for it. These people can fly off the handle and nobody says, 'Too much beef will do that to a person.' If it's a vegan: a clear case of alfalfa sprout poisoning.
Victoria Moran
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My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.
Adam Braun
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If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.
Charlotte Rampling
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For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles of giant weeds, over sun-flickered spaces and on and on into gloom, cold, deep, inscrutable; suddenly she shoots to the surface and sports on the wind-wrinkled waves; that is, has a positive need to brush, scrape, kindle herself, gossiping.
Virginia Woolf
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I wish the American public wasn't so stupid if they realized that half the people on television make a living just to insult the other party.
Charles Barkley
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A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit.
Little Richard
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They will wrest 'dull words' from my cold dead hands.
Alexandra Petri