Alexandra Petri Quotes

In high school, you at least have to get up at a reasonable hour and show up at places on time. College, on the other hand, gave me the sense that I could complete major assignments at 2 A.M. without suffering any repercussions, along with the erroneous idea that in real life, things started after one in the afternoon.

Alexandra Petri

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LifeTimeSchoolCollegeSuffering

Between the two dream coasts, we're just called flyover country... If you aren't known as an amorphous Eastern Seaboard writer, you're dismissed as a regional author.

Jim Harrison

YouDreamCountryTwoJustBetween

In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car.

John Moody

CarTimeBoatTransportationThree

In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have passed through my life many times.

Anja Niedringhaus

LifeMy LifePhotographerSoldiers

Americans' distrust of the conspicuously intellectual - a habit we learned, I suppose, on the frontier, but which remains a feature of the national character - has the virtue of puncturing the pretentious and exposing the fake, but it may also have impaired American listeners' patience for music that is especially complex or austere.

Steven Stucky

PatienceMusicCharacterHabitFake

If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself.

Stuart Appleby

WalkMeLovedDoingCowMilk

I've been in love before, every love-relationship is tough and it has its challenges.

Josh Hutcherson

LoveChallengesToughBeenBefore

You can't talk about defeating insurgencies in the same way that you can with a conventional army.

Des Browne

ArmyYouWayTalkSameAbout

Getting older is baggage for so many people but I don't spend time on things I can't control. Wrinkles don't scare me; they're a part of life, and I will and do embrace them, but I look at surgery, and that scares me.

Christy Turlington

LifeTimeGetting OlderPeopleMe

If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text.

Alison Jackson

ThinkYouPicturesLensSeeThrough

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare

LifeShadowWalkingIdiotNothing

With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music - you can't do that in jazz. You can't do that with classical.

Serj Tankian

MusicPowerYouJazzRockReflect

The kind of investors we seek are long term because that's how we make our decisions.

Tim Cook

DecisionsLongKindSeekLong Term

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