Alexandra Petri Quotes
You do not get gold stars for cleaning your toilet. In actual life, there is a depressing lack of stickers.
Alexandra Petri
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
Zach Anner
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
J. M. G. Le Clezio
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
Washed Out
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
Valerie Plame
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Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
Sam Simon
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Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
Ferid Murad
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
Maajid Nawaz
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I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wrap in a cardboard coffin in my forest with an oak tree planted on my head.
Felix Dennis
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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
Garcelle Beauvais
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
Rain Phoenix
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The cure is care. Caring for others is the practice of peace. Caring becomes as important as curing. Caring produces the cure, not the reverse. Caring about nuclear war and its victims is the beginning of a cure for our obsession with war. Peace does not comes through strength. Quite the opposite: Strength comes through peace. The practices of peace strengthen us for every vicissitude. . . . The task is immense!
Sargent Shriver
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A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the artists from the beginning to the end, you know. And, well, not to the end, but since the beginning to now, you know.
Q-Tip
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I gave my life to the Lord at 12. I was baptized at 12.
Chuck Norris
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You do not get gold stars for cleaning your toilet. In actual life, there is a depressing lack of stickers.
Alexandra Petri
