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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We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep.
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The French talk about education, the education of their children. They don't talk about raising kids. They talk about education. And that has nothing to do with school. It's this kind of broad description of how you raise children and what you teach them.
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Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.
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Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.
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The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.
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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.
