Alexandra Petri Quotes

Millennials give comics the kind of adulation past generations reserved for musicians. We respect Lady Gaga. But we'll travel hundreds of miles to touch the hem of Jon Stewart's robe.

Alexandra Petri

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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.

John O. Brennan

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I find that it's not the numbers but the quality of the audience. That's why it got to be such a big thing when I left Microsoft, because I had an interested audience; not huge, but passionate. The passionate ones are the ones who change society.

Robert Scoble

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Whoever I can go out every week and motivate to do better and to try to go after their dreams, I'm up for that.

Robert Griffin III

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People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.

Andy Warhol

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I lived Real Madrid, with all the perfect things to grow up.

Alvaro Morata

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I'm a skinny kid from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

Tony Rock

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Totally, if I wasn't trying to be an actor, I would leave L.A. because you can't really have that life here. There's a lot of baggage that comes with being here, like the paparazzi, traffic, and all of it.

Rumer Willis

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Rather than thinking about what not to eat, I like to focus on what I can eat to look and feel my best.

Mary Helen Bowers

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To butcher a pork shoulder is to be forcibly reminded that this is the shoulder of a large mammal, made up of distinct groups of muscles with a purpose quite apart from feeding me. The work itself gives me a keener interest in the story of the hog: where it came from and how it found its way to my kitchen.

Michael Pollan

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How little do we discover in comparison of those things which now are and forever will be hidden from our sight? The whole of which I am fully persuaded no one will ever be able to dive into, and to explain their causes and effects.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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Maybe to my own detriment, but I watched all of 'Fargo' probably more than once. And I tend to be a little critical of myself. But I can also let things go. So I can think, 'Well, that moment didn't read as well as I thought it would,' but it doesn't keep me up at night.

Allison Tolman

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