Alexandra Petri Quotes

Comedy and politics have a lot in common. Both are great ways to pick up chicks - just look at Governor Spitzer. Or Ellen Degeneres. Both require spending time on the road meeting strangers who often have the desire to throw things at you. Both are difficult, if not impossible, to do all alone. And both rely heavily on personality.

Alexandra Petri

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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.

Edmund Phelps
Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Napoleon Hill
Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.

Barton Seaver
- Age
- Space
- Start
What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.

Francesco Quinn
- Long
- Children
- Done
Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

Kal Penn
- Up
- Done
- Down
Greetings and death to our enemies.

Dan Aykroyd
- Death
- Enemies
- Our