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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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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God gave me everything I have.
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Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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Obviously, it'd mean a lot to fans and baseball historians and stuff like that. But we're not worried about that. We're worried about the 25 guys in here.
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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.
