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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I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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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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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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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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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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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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I think the most important thing we as writers can do is figure out how we define what success will mean to us and focus on that.
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Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment.
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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
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I'm not talking about what you hear from 5 per cent of the population on the radio, in the papers. I don't pay attention to it. I travel around the country. I'm happy I have a good relationship with the people.
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The desire for attention has become a primal need along the lines of food, water, and clothing.
