Alexandra Petri Quotes
Being a person of faith is just another of a wide range of fun activities available to those who come to Harvard. When Harvard boasts to admitted students of its more than 40 religious groups, it does so in the same vein that it boasts of its nearly dozen a cappella groups.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.
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Career had a lot to do with 80 percent of my breakups. It's very tough to date a struggling musician. The idea of it is enticing and fun and mysterious. But the reality is long hours and hard work. I have a lot of respect for the women I've dated.
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If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
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Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.
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I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I'm from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, 'Single-fare, double journey.'
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We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.
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Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
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Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war.
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In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could be an illusion. All humans live with the wrong assumptions. Isn't that another way of looking at it? That sharingan how much can you really se?
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Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in them.
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Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what I should've been doing all along, writing and recording.
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I just thought Harvard sounded great. So let's see if I get in. I didn't really have a big back-up plan.
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Being a person of faith is just another of a wide range of fun activities available to those who come to Harvard. When Harvard boasts to admitted students of its more than 40 religious groups, it does so in the same vein that it boasts of its nearly dozen a cappella groups.
