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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Restitution I have almost always believed is best handled through individual arbitration or litigation where individual investors, if they believe they have relied upon improper advice rendered by Merrill Lynch or anybody else, can file that claim, ... That is the best forum for those issues to be resolved.
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Maybe you should evolve too! Making everything your fault is the stupid way out...and you shouldn't waste your brain. Why do you think that way, huh? You must not be seeing the whole picture. What do you want anyway? Shouldn't you be striving for yourself?
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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A picture can hide as much as it reveals.
