Alexandra Petri Quotes

Thanks to postmodernism, we tend to see all facts as meaningless trivia, no one more vital than any other. Yet this disregard for facts qua facts is intellectually crippling. Facts are the raw material of thought, and the knowledge of significant facts makes sophisticated thought possible.

Alexandra Petri

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You have to be careful as a news organization that you don't fall into voluntary censorship, that you worry about offending your 'league partner.' I never worried about that. I worry about fans listening.

Jeff Van Gundy

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You can make a really good film for under a million dollars, like 'October Baby,' or under a half million, like 'Hardflip.'

John Schneider

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A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is.

John Updike

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I do think you need to listen to the voters.

Rob Portman

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My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot.

Michelle Bachelet

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I think tech is driving most of the innovation and will continue to for a very, very long time.

Michael Seibel

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Ever since I was a child, I was fascinated by show business, the theater.

Milos Forman

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By exercising your stomach muscles, you wring out the body, you don't catch colds, you don't get cancer, you don't get hernias. Do animals get hernias? Do animals go on diets?

Joseph Pilates

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I see so many people get so wrapped up in wanting to get a bigger SUV or a bigger house. But then I think, 'My God, I could have been born a woman in the Congo.'

Janine di Giovanni

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Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior's healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications.

Dennis Hastert

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When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.

Christopher McQuarrie

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I don't believe in being vengeful or trying to send a message to someone. You waste your energy that way.

Ciara

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