Alexandra Petri Quotes
The desire for attention has become a primal need along the lines of food, water, and clothing.
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.
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My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.
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For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
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The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.
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I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.
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How does one get bored of life?
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To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.
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Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.
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The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.
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Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary, nothing so motivates us to deal with sin in our lives as does the understanding and application of the two truth that our sins are forgiven and the dominion of sin is broken because of our union with Christ.
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As a filmmaker, I've sat on the other side, and I've watched when people I know have a film, and it's doing really well, and people are talking about it in all the trades, and everybody is excited about it, and I've always thought, 'Hmm, what would that be like?'
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The desire for attention has become a primal need along the lines of food, water, and clothing.
