Alexandra Petri Quotes
Dull words are what make many bright sentences shine. They do not call attention to themselves.
Quotes to Explore
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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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.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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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.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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My dad is afraid of my laugh.
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I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
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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.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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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.
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.
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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.
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'Let Me Love You' is about being brave enough to let a person get close enough to you to teach you how to love yourself, to teach you the importance of loving yourself.
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It is true that we are under occupation, but we are not the weaker party. We are the military force which Israel failed to defeat.
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... there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.
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Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.
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The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?
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Dull words are what make many bright sentences shine. They do not call attention to themselves.
