Alexandra Petri Quotes

At college, everyone's milestones occurred in shared clumps. Everyone studied, caroused, won, lost - simultaneously. Life is not like that.

Alexandra Petri

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I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.

Jeremy Northam

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I seem to be very attracted to strong female personalities in acting and music.

John Grant

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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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I have a profound affection for Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism's particular ways of meditating.

John McLaughlin

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I wanted to do well for me and for Maura. It is bigger than me. I have a responsibility. It's incumbent upon me to do Maura the best I can.

Jeffrey Tambor

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Keeping your head down and just writing is only part of the equation, so I surround myself with smart people to help sell my books.

Michael Connelly

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I never really considered myself an actor because I never pursued it.

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

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Television had a black president long before Barack Obama.

Rocky Carroll

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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Rudyard Kipling

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Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

Mo Ibrahim

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My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.

Bob McDonnell

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The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.

Arnold J. Toynbee

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