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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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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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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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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There was never a moment when I was like, 'I'm going to enter the public conversation on the importance of female nudity.'
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I lost dozens of pairs of expensive glasses because I'd put them down and then not be able to find them again.
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I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week practicing something that people just dismiss with a wave of hand.
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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
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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.
