Alexandra Petri Quotes
The biggest way to be productive is if you're procrastinating on another more important project.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare.
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My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.
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I don't create from a place of me making art for art's sake, but wanting my work to actually do stuff... tangible things.
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Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus.
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When President Ronald Reagan negotiated some significant arms reduction deals with the then-Soviet Union, he was considered a real hero, someone who was advocating for peace.
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The biggest way to be productive is if you're procrastinating on another more important project.
