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Alexandra Petri Quotes

I swear like a sailor, assuming the sailor in question died in 1800 and was really square.

Alexandra Petri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american

Topics

Question Sailor Square Assuming Like

One of the hazards of making a major discovery early in your career is the burden of expectation, not helped in my case by becoming a wife and mother soon afterwards. I'm sure some people think it was a flash in the pan.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Mother Wife People Think Early

They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.

Medical School Think Thinking You

I grew up in a family of predominantly female bread winners who are strong and are fierce and opinionated. There's not enough women like that on the screen.

Family Women Strong Fierce Enough

No matter how successful you become... there's always that sense that you could be better.

Better You Matter Become Always How

I hope that as the Senate and American people learn more about me, they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.

Sonia Sotomayor

Hope I Am People Me Blessed Learn

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.

Change People Grow Place Frontier

It's taken me a long time to enjoy shopping. As a plus-size girl, you walk into a store, and it can sometimes be like a designer doesn't know you exist. It's become a fun treasure hunt.

Girl Time Walk Fun Me Shopping

I was a really good student. In the sixth grade, I was reading at a twelfth grade reading level. But I got bored.

Good Reading Student Bored Level

Are there people's music that I don't like? Sure, there are.

Music People Sure Like

If you want to perform at your ultimate best, if you want to be the best you can be in sports and in school, mentally, physically - chiropractic is the way, because everything has to do with your nervous system.

Jonathan Lipnicki

Sports Best School You Want Nervous

Going to film school taught me how much I already knew, and that the best way to learn about film is being on the set with professionals.

Best School Me Learn Way Going

I'd like people to listen to our soldiers. They were there. They heard the alarms go off. They tasted the substance in the air. They spit up blood. They had rashes on their bodies. They got sick.

Christopher Shays

People Sick Go Blood Listen Air

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