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Hi, my name is Alexandra, and I'm a netaholic.

~Alexandra Petri

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At Harvard, where students tend to respond to real-world celebrities with the vague sense that they could do a better job themselves, the recipe for celebrity is complex.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: Better Better Job Celebrities Celebrity Complex Could Harvard Job Real-World Recipe Respond Sense Students Tend Themselves Vague Where

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I am a millennial. Destruction is all I know. I no longer care what I wipe from the face of the Earth.

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You can be brilliant in some ways and despicable in others. You can be a clean, upright, moral individual in your private life who never swears, treats women with respect, and speaks highly of duty and honor - and go out every day and dedicate yourself to a cause that makes the world worse.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: Brilliant Cause Clean Day Dedicate Despicable Duty Every Every Day Go Highly Honor Individual Life Makes Moral Never Others Out Private Private Life Respect Some Speaks Treats Upright Ways Who Women World Worse You Your Yourself

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MS Paint was my creative outlet for many years.

~Alexandra Petri

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A picture may be worth 1,000 words, but I think if the picture is made in MS Paint, the going rate might be slightly less.

~Alexandra Petri

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Bills ought to be passed with deliberation by committees. Change should be achieved in a bipartisan manner. Incrementally, day by day, we should reach a consensus - not perfect, by any means - but something that we can be proud of, nonetheless.

~Alexandra Petri

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All children, except two, grow up: Peter Pan and Donald Trump Jr.

~Alexandra Petri

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Yale students want to impress you with what they're doing. Harvard students want to impress you with how cool they look while doing it.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: Cool Doing Harvard How Impress Look Students Want While Yale You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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