Alexandra Petri Quotes

How many stories do you know about people cooped up in places because of deep snowfall? How many stories where something good happens to those people?

Alexandra Petri

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GoodPeopleDeepYouKnowPlaces

And I think the rolling polls put more pressure on them to sustain their beliefs and to improve their delivery of the policy and their delivery of the ideas so that they can garner support for whatever principle they're articulating.

Jim Bolger

SupportIdeasThinkPressureMore

I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.

Jo Brand

DownNowThreeNervousUsedGet

No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry.

Maurice Gibb

MotherWifeDatingMeThoughtShe

Growing up in a traditional environment, I was taught the importance of art, how it's connected to the soul, how it makes a human being. This made me understand and cherish American art forms.

Michael Horse

ArtSoulMeGrowing UpAmerican

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

Robert Duvall

GoodTodaySpecialEverythingRoom

Alaska Airlines and I have a lot in common, so coming together to delight travelers with savory, high quality food from the Pacific Northwest made sense.

Tom Douglas

FoodQualityTogetherAlaskaHigh

Every day, it was the same: school, homework, farm work, training. Getting hurt or dying might've been better than the life I was living.

Roy Jones Jr.

LifeWorkDayTrainingSchoolHurt

I was nearly struck by lightning on an excavation in Turkey.

Mary Beard

LightningTurkeyNearlyStruck

You have to be true to your instinctive way of writing. You have to find your identity.

Michaela Coel

IdentityWritingYouBe TrueFind

The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's just too critical to let go, as we've been so blithely doing.

Michael Pollan

FamilyDemocracyLearnDoingGo

I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.

Monica Lewinsky

GirlMistakesI AmToughLearnMade

My focus is trying to make great music and putting on great shows, and whatever happens beyond that is a bonus to me.

Luke Bryan

MusicGreatFocusMeTryingBeyond

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