Alexandra Petri Quotes
Some information is important, and some is not, and intelligence consists in knowing one from the other.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.
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How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
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I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously.
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The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.
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Actually, I used to be a busboy in a strip joint in New York and so I hate strip joints. I'm not that kind of person.
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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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Boxing is the most beautiful thing after women.
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It's really important that folks be able to speak out.
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It's one of those things where the book has all these stars that burn really bright that you hang onto and they're all saying, 'This is The Girl on the Train experience.' All those stars or hooks needed to be in the film, but sometimes they needed to be a bit different. It's important when adapting such a popular book to hit all those points but also break out expectations without slaughtering the book. And that was, for me, the joy of adapting the book.
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Peter Kaplan was a partner, a mentor, and a friend.
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I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.
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Some information is important, and some is not, and intelligence consists in knowing one from the other.
