Alexandra Petri Quotes

I tend to process stuff by making jokes about it. It's something that makes me annoying to be around in times of real crisis.

Alexandra Petri

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The main experience, I think, is that we have managed: people moving to Norway has made Norway richer, economically, but also our culture has become more rich in many ways.

Jens Stoltenberg

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I have never felt oppressed by women or that feminism is a problem. I do think boys find it hard to like things seen as feminine. I want my son not to feel self-conscious he likes ballet and my daughter to carry on playing Han Solo; that's all.

Matt Haig

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From an early age, my intuition was that I would be a musician.

Michael Bacon

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I think 'Lost' is like losing a friend or a relative or someone. You can't replace it with another one.

Sonya Walger

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There's no one type of film that I like watching. I loved 'Tropic Thunder' and the first 'Austin Powers,' and then 'The Godfather Parts I' and 'II,' 'There Will Be Blood,' Wes Anderson films.

Stana Katic

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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

Rita Mae Brown

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The lawyer refused to tell me my brother's name, and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James - someone more talented than I: someone brilliant without even trying.

Mona Simpson

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What we believe is that health care should be a right in this country; I happen to believe that means that we should be for single-payer.

Jason Kander

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The holy spirit means the invisible power of Jehovah, holy because he is holy. This power of Jehovah operated upon the minds of honest men who loved and who were devoted to righteousness, directing them in the writing of the Bible.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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I'm able to leave Don Draper at work. I'm quite dissimilar from him in real life.

Jon Hamm

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About 90 percent of what's out there in cyberspace is hearsay - or lies - and opinion, often misinformed opinion, and it's all repeated over and over again.

David Tang

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Holdouts never go well. Just look at history. It always ends badly. It wouldn't be the best decision. I make a lot of money. I pull up to camp in Rolls-Royces.

Antonio Brown

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