Alexandra Petri Quotes
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
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Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.
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I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.
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You can stroke people with words.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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I have stopped having goals. If you have many goals, and you don't reach your goals, it is very upsetting, so I just think of keeping it simple, working hard and going and playing the game. But I know there are going to be very important series for Indian cricket. I will just try my best to be in my fittest form.
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I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.
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You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
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I know that I do have influence over the people who watch me, and it's quite a pressure. I have to stay positive, and while I would never use the words 'role model', I am mindful of the responsibilities that come with a substantial viewership.
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How important is failure - yes, failure - to the health of a thriving, innovative business? So important that Ratan Tata, chairman of India's largest corporation, gives an annual award to the employee who comes up with the best idea that failed.
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I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.
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We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.
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It's hard to bury your head in Los Angeles. People come up to you and say, 'Hey, I saw your picture on a bus.' It's tricky: You're excited by the possibilities, but you don't want to get too crazy.
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A picture can hide as much as it reveals.
