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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Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in that context, as a kind of forcing of the will. But there seems to be an idea of writing as an intuitive pastime which is being dishonestly subjected to counterintuitive methods.
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For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.
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In real life, Oxford and Cambridge are two excellent universities, like many others in the country. They are full of highly intelligent, hard-working, and quite ordinary students and teachers.
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Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
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I clip coupons all the time. Why should you pay more for something that someone else is paying less for?
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No one has debates on Twitter.
