Alexandra Petri Quotes

Bad things happen, and you can only be so prepared.

Alexandra Petri

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YouBadThings HappenHappenThings

Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.

Jimmy Reid

FamilyGoodPowerGovernmentKind

I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces.

Melissa Auf der Maur

ParentsBornAtheistMeanUpPretty

Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed.

John Moody

RiverUnitedEvenEastMississippi

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.

John Howe

LongFirstBeenIllustrationBooks

There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury. Of those four, the first three were all published principally in science-fiction magazines. They were preaching to the converted.

Robert J. Sawyer

ScienceThreeScience FictionFirst

We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short.

Andy Taylor

PeopleCoolShortSellingWill

I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me.

Tony Abbott

MeThinkConvictionsAgainstShould

The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason.

Rupert Murdoch

First AmendmentFirstReasonPress

I always wanted to act. To be with my friends. To share something with the audience about the human condition.

Jason Robards

FriendsHumanAlwaysAudienceAct

In my early twenties, the whole experience of going on tour was like losing myself in this slightly wild environment.

Johnny Flynn

MyselfExperienceLosingEarlyWild

I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent or child.

Dee Rees

ChildPeopleParentYouWantOkay

As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.

Arthur Middleton

WorkLovePrayerPeopleWithoutHe

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