Alexandra Petri Quotes
People feel compelled to continue reading and hearing the news. Sometimes, you just want somebody to be yelling at it with you as you're reading it. I think of that as my function.
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.
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Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.
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So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy.
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Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.
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People feel compelled to continue reading and hearing the news. Sometimes, you just want somebody to be yelling at it with you as you're reading it. I think of that as my function.
