Alexandra Petri Quotes
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I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'
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Anyone who has been to India - specifically Rajasthan, the rich and kingly region in the country's northwest - knows that when it comes to adornment, Indians do not think like other people.
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It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.
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So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.
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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
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I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.
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You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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For many young people, social mobility now means a bus down to the job centre.
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I’m used to that. It often seems to me that’s all detective work is - wiping out your false starts and beginning again.
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ISIS is not at our doorstep. Illegal immigrants are not only at our doorstep, but millions of them are already through the door, murdering far more Americans than ISIS ever will.
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Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get to orbit, we trained months and months for, and didn't have to use any of that preparation, other than being aware and ready.
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You don't have to you change yourself for somebody else to like you.
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People who don't use the tools given to them only injure themselves.
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That's all small talk is - a quick way to connect on a human level - which is why it is by no means as irrelevant as the people who are bad at it insist. In short, it's worth making the effort.
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If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light.
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We are so lucky Americans are impressive with what they're willing to give. We get bashed too much. And, so many young people in this country give so much. They're not all gang bangers.
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A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world.
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Truly England and the church of God hath had a great favour from the Lord, in this great victory given us.
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Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach.
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If awkward has an antithesis, it is probably Barack Obama.
