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Alexandra Petri Quotes

It's not that Millennials don't believe some things are serious. We'll make 'It Gets Better' videos or perform comedy for disaster relief. But sum up our lives in a phrase? The Importance of Never Being Too Earnest.

Alexandra Petri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american

Topics

Believe Better Comedy Serious Never

My first guitar was like a campfire guitar. And it was left at a house that my family had moved into... and the guitar was at the house. It was all strung up. It's normally something that would be beyond a bit of rubbish.

Jimmy Page

Family Guitar House Beyond First Up

My favorite growing up was Bret Hart. I just idolized him when I was a child; he was my hero.

Jinder Mahal

Hero Child Growing Up Growing Him

The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them.

Jennifer Lynch

People You More Closer Happened

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

Andrew Vachss

Change Democracy Journalism Force

Every part of me is a surfer. I love surfing, and I love the waves that I surf. So that's the thing that I get excited about most: What kind of waves am I going to be able to surf? Am I going to be surfing alone, or will we be surfing waves that no one's surfed before? Second to that is photography.

John John Florence

Love Alone Me Waves Photography Get

I stand behind what I say and what I do.

Rob Van Dam

Stand Say Behind

There's a lot of girls in the division I really like, but I always feel like there's this underlying sense of a potential matchup, potential competition. It adds a different element.

Miesha Tate

Competition Potential Feel Division

I didn't want to stop before my time was up.

Misty May-Treanor

Time Stop Want Up My Time Before

We want Iowa to remain red. We have worked so hard to get here. We will not be a purple state: we will be a red state.

Joni Ernst

Red Want Purple Will Hard Here

It's true I didn't get a fair trial, but the problem is people don't understand the details. It is important to understand the details of the trial and why I'm not guilty under the charges that were brought against me.

Chen Shui-bian

People Me Details Problem Guilty

It's not about 'if', it's about 'when.'

Ato Boldon

About

I never really felt super-Texan. It wasn't like I was unhappy, but I wasn't superhappy.

Win Butler

Unhappy Never Like Felt Really