Alexandra Petri Quotes

If you want to be famous because you do something well or badly, be it singing while fat or hitting balls of various shapes and hues, you have to be prepared to divulge. We live in the age of the chronic overshare.

Alexandra Petri

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Kids don't like being put into boxes, and your kid can act in different ways in different situations.

Rosalind Wiseman

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The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing.

Ron Perlman

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It is known that wildfires behave unpredictably - this is fundamental - but it is my experience that humans in the presence of wildfire are also likely to behave in aberrant and unpredictable ways.

Michael Leunig

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If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who 'did all that stuff to you' were just as frightened and scared as you are.

Louise L. Hay

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Acting is not a normal job, no, but I don't think that takes me out of the game as far as having had the experience of being a hard worker.

Lucas Till

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I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

Dirk Benedict

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I always doodled as a kid while I was talking on the phone or watching TV.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Aristotle

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Being a World Cup winner was a dream come true.

Ali Krieger

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I wanted to leave 'Eight Is Enough' for the Navy.

Willie Aames

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Many women assume they can't be good mothers and have challenging careers at the same time, so they might give up trying to do both as they get to a crucial point in their career. Although it can be hard at times, it's important for women to recognize the benefits of working outside the home.

Susan Wojcicki

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We need to be calling out the flaws and misguided decisions of the Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration.

Tim Pawlenty

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