Alexandra Petri Quotes

While MIT and the University of Chicago duke it out for the title of nerdiest school, James Franco and Renee Zellweger show up at Harvard to party. Somehow, miracle of miracles, Harvard is 'cool.'

Alexandra Petri

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When they get a 50-inch waist and a gorilla butt, it's ugly looking - and I think bodybuilding has become ugly looking.

Joe Gold

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When the market goes to hell, it's more of an opportunity than a problem.

John Fredriksen

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I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

John Engler

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Looking back, I just think I was a really average sort of girl.

Rosamund Pike

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Limitations are inspiring: they lead to thinking, so I don't mind them.

Mike Nichols

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We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.

Mohammed Omar

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I look at what we have - our traditional natural resource base - as helping move us to that cleaner, more diverse energy supply.

Lisa Murkowski

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I grew up in the East Village, in Alphabet City, when it was a very dangerous neighborhood. To survive there, I had to learn to be a little bit invisible.

Josh Pais

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There's not going to be a 'Rescue Me' movie. Not a chance.

Denis Leary

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The ultimate goal is to be the leader in mobile commerce. I'm not just saying revenues; if you're trying to find a good experience of buying something on your phone, I want you to automatically think, 'Boxed has one of the best, if not the best, experiences of buying something on your mobile device.'

Chieh Huang

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I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

Brendan Gill

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On stage, you can bring all those strong emotions that you don't have the opportunity to live. You don't want to die for love every day, but on stage, you can.

Sylvie Guillem

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