Alexandra Petri Quotes
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'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
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U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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It's great to be able to continue my career in Chicago. Playing with the best organization in sports and the best fans in the game is a blessing.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.
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For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
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The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.
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Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
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Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
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I like going to see live bands. Live bands can be quite heavy, but I think it's very relaxing at the same time because you feel so happy and chilled-out.
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When you mix fashion and politics, you get fascism. Politics have fashion, and it's bad; fashion has politics, that are ugly.
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I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.
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There are two words for everything.
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Both YouKu and Tudou do original content for a number of years, and we position it based on our difference in terms of age demographic. And so the content itself is really more suitable for the brand itself.
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That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
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Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.
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A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.
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Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn't come from me. It should come from the medical establishment.
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It's not without its flaws - it's still the South and the Bible Belt - but Atlanta is one of those cities that's really good at uniting people.
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I think it's unworkable. What are we going to have, people like in contentious divorces suddenly claiming that one or the other of them should go to jail because once he or she spanked the child.
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No one has debates on Twitter.
