Alexandra Petri Quotes
At Harvard, where students tend to respond to real-world celebrities with the vague sense that they could do a better job themselves, the recipe for celebrity is complex.Alexandra Petri
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
Adam Braun -
You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
Padma Lakshmi -
Where love is, there God is also.
Mahatma Gandhi -
He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
Fay Wray -
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
Mahmoud Darwish -
Time stays, we go.
H. L. Mencken
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
J. Cole -
I sat behind Thurman Thomas for my first couple of years, then my first year starting I won the Heisman. After I won the Heisman, that's when things changed as far as going to the NFL.
Barry Sanders -
Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
Kate Christensen -
I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
Patricia Ireland -
One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.
Adam Mansbach -
I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
Idris Elba
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
Waris Ahluwalia -
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
I never liked you, and I always will.
Samuel Goldwyn -
I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back.
Tamron Hall -
If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
Nate Diaz -
It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an adequate idea of the higher feelings of wonder, astonishment, and devotion, which fill and elevate the mind.
Charles Darwin
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As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
Oscar Wilde -
Every villain in the DC Universe wants something different, and not all of them want to rule the world. Or at least, not all of them want to rule the world in the way the Crime Syndicate do.
Geoff Johns -
I think great directors really respect their actors and vice versa. That mutual respect makes the job fun instead of anything but.
Lake Bell -
Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.
Anthony Doerr -
At Harvard, where students tend to respond to real-world celebrities with the vague sense that they could do a better job themselves, the recipe for celebrity is complex.
Alexandra Petri