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Alexandra Petri Quotes

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

Alexandra Petri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american

Topics

I Am Face Care Earth Know Wipe

There is no comparison. The American landscape is so much more dangerous. They have real snakes, mountain lions, bears; we only have adders, and they're more frightened of us than we are of them.

Mountain American Landscape Dangerous

The name Crow was inspired by a number of things. I thought it would be cool to have a robot with sort of a Native American feel to it.

Cool Thought Name American Feel

The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.

Teacher Responsibility Mom Blame

I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is Norwegian.

Mother I Am Growing Up American Up

The first job I got was a production of 'Fame - the Musical,' at the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts, and it got me my Equity card, too. I waited 12 hours to be seen for it, though!

Music Job Me Theatre Fame First

It really, truly is sad when it's over, man. To not have that regularness, that familiarity. I love working in television because of that. It's like going to see your family every day.

Family Love Sad Day Man Every Day

What makes 'American Pie' so unusual is that it isn't a relic from the counterculture but a talisman, which, like a sacred river, keeps bringing joy to listeners everywhere. When 'American Pie' suddenly is played on a jukebox or radio, it's almost impossible not to sing along.

Douglas Brinkley

Joy River Impossible American Pie

I believe I am standing firm as a black woman in this industry in a time that it is hard as an artist period.

Time Woman I Am Believe Black Hard

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

Bruce Springsteen

Family Street Up Big Five Houses

People in all walks of life, and especially business, do not want to experience the collapse of cities like New York along with global finance and economy in chaos, but this is what business faces if we continue to attribute climate change to fossil fuels alone.

Life Change Business Alone Finance

I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.

Leonard Susskind

Love School Engineering Physics Fell

I want to make movies in every genre.

Want Movies Make Genre Every

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