Alexandra Petri Quotes
Dull words are what make many bright sentences shine. They do not call attention to themselves.Alexandra Petri
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
Karan Mahajan -
My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
Damian Lewis -
My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
Edmund Phelps -
With 'Dance Moms' in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we're not filming, so I'm dancing every day except Sunday.
Maddie Ziegler -
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Ovid -
Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
Victor Ponta
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
Patrick deWitt -
When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
Fetty Wap -
I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
Olivia Colman -
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
Wendell Berry -
My dad is afraid of my laugh.
Halston Sage -
I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.
Taraji P. Henson -
We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
P. D. James -
From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
Yukihiro Matsumoto -
The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
Ednita Nazario -
When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.
Caitlyn Jenner -
I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
Vincent Cassel
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When something like that happens, people want to try to find some dirt and make it more of a soap opera. But I think we both walked away with the door still open, if we want to do something together again. So yeah, I would call it a friendly break-up.
Scott Stapp -
If I am going to know who Jesus is, I must obey Him. The majority of us don't know Jesus because we have not the remotest intention of obeying Him.
Oswald Chambers -
Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation.
M. F. K. Fisher -
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
Dull words are what make many bright sentences shine. They do not call attention to themselves.
Alexandra Petri