Alexandra Petri Quotes

People feel compelled to continue reading and hearing the news. Sometimes, you just want somebody to be yelling at it with you as you're reading it. I think of that as my function.

Alexandra Petri

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PeopleReadingThinkFeelYouNews

I live in Brooklyn and work in Manhattan, two of the most liberal places in the country.

Jenna Wortham

WorkLiveBrooklynCountryPlaces

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.

John Kenneth Galbraith

ThoughtBetterAnchorNonsenseOut

Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.

Matthew Simpson

LifeThingsAgainstUsPractical

I always wanted my work to speak for itself, and have opportunities to do interesting work and not just puff pieces.

Amanda Fuller

WorkSpeakOpportunitiesInteresting

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

Sitting Bull

LoveMindEnoughSoilPossessions

Hype is supposed to overpromise and underdeliver, not overpromise and overdeliver. Usually, it doesn't deliver at all - it takes your money and keeps your pizza.

Steve Rushin

MoneyPizzaHypeYourDeliverTakes

As parents, can we counter the effect of television violence? One worrying feature in Britain is that so many TV sets are in a child's bedroom; this means that the mediating effect of watching with a parent, the ability to discuss and interpret what has been seen, is lost.

Robert Winston

ChildParentsParentViolenceLost

When 'The Pacific' came around, I had to audition the old-fashioned way. It was the casting director and then the producer and then another producer and another producer and then Spielberg and Hanks.

Joseph Mazzello

WayDirectorProducerOld-Fashioned

I'm very competitive and academic.

Dove Cameron

AcademicCompetitiveVery

In our experience, when people make comprehensive lifestyle changes, they usually can reduce or discontinue medications such as cholesterol-lowering drugs, anti-hypertensives, beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors, nitrates, insulin, and so on.

Dean Ornish

ExperiencePeopleLifestyleChanges

My pet peeve is when people come over to my house, and there are coasters, but they don't use a coaster.

Chord Overstreet

PetPeopleHouseOverComeUse

We all have a role to play in creating safe environments where everyone can be free to work without fear.

Anna Wintour

WorkFearFreeCreatingPlaySafe

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