Alexandra Petri Quotes
Yale students want to impress you with what they're doing. Harvard students want to impress you with how cool they look while doing it.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.
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We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.
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I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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Not every artist is a role model.
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I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships.
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J. G. Ballard is just an example of the writers I like. Philip K. Dick is obviously one of them. I'm a big fan of William Gibson as well. He started cyberpunk with 'Neuromancer.' I've come to know him a little bit over Twitter, of all places, and I was always a huge fan of his. It's very cool to know he even knows I exist.
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I wanted to be Cher for a long time, but not for the singing. I just thought she was so cool. I wanted her long hair, and I wanted to weigh five pounds.
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We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.
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Yale students want to impress you with what they're doing. Harvard students want to impress you with how cool they look while doing it.
