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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I had a 20-year, stellar government career.
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You just have to work super hard, and if you have a passion, that's the most beautiful thing in life, and you just have to bust out and do it, baby!
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How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong.
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Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow higher, deeper, wider, as the years go on; to conquer difficulties, and acquire more and more power; to feel all one's faculties unfolding, and truth descending into the soul, - this makes life worth living.
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No one has debates on Twitter.
