Alexandra Petri Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid.
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To Kelly, after he's become suspicious You haven't been playing doctors and nurses have you?
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My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.
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La mémoire de la plupart des hommes est un cimetière abandonné, où gisent sans honneurs des morts qu'ils ont cessé de chérir.
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Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.
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As long as I'm writing stuff and people are reading it, I'll be happy.
