Alexandra Petri Quotes
George Washington didn't have to make us laugh; he just had to establish precedents and avoid chopping down more cherry trees than he could possibly help. But somewhere along the line, Americans began expecting their presidents to do more than just govern. They also had to make us laugh.
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The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.
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When the opportunity came along to do 'Win, Lose or Draw,' I took it selfishly to find out if I did enjoy being me on camera. And I did that for the last two years I was doing 'Mama's Family.'
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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I make sure I eat well without depriving myself of the things that I love: a cheeseburger and fries, creamy white-truffle pasta, bowls of ice cream. Everything in moderation, but I indulge at least three times a week.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
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I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry.
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ἁμέραι δ᾽ ἐπίλοιποιμάρτυρες σοφώτατοι.
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though money is a fine servant, as a god, it does seem to develop all the evil qualities of the slave seated between the cherubim.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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George Washington didn't have to make us laugh; he just had to establish precedents and avoid chopping down more cherry trees than he could possibly help. But somewhere along the line, Americans began expecting their presidents to do more than just govern. They also had to make us laugh.
