Alexandra Petri Quotes

Harvard is nerd rehab. You have to check yourself in. Those who seek a school filled with self-proclaimed 'nerds,' seek elsewhere. Dropping the H bomb may brand you as an intellectual or a Kennedy. But it will not give you much nerd cred. And that's a good thing.

Alexandra Petri

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GoodYourselfSchoolBrandYouWill

We live in a world where action is what counts.

Melinda McGraw

LiveWorldActionWhereCounts

I've been DJing since before I could read the labels on the records.

Mayer Hawthorne

BeenRecordsReadLabelsBefore

Temperament and tightness often go together. But if you're tight, you can't sing. So I have to have that tension in my body but not in my voice.

Sondra Radvanovsky

TogetherVoiceYouBodyGoTension

The people who were in college in the '50s were my first real audience, and their kids, the people who found my records in the cabinet during their 'Mad 'magazine years picked me up also.

Tom Lehrer

PeopleCollegeMeMadFirstReal

It's a huge responsibility being a solo act.

Robbie Williams

ResponsibilitySoloActBeingHuge

Does anybody know what I'm doing up here?

Jay London

DoingKnowUpHereAnybodyDoes

Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.

Jose Andres

TodayFoodDietPoliticalGrowing

Giving oneself permission to write to begin with is the first enormous challenge. But you discover that this permission involves a requirement: To write about things that are difficult because they are, in fact, your subject.

Jonathan Galassi

ChallengeGivingYouDifficultFirst

Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agriculture - from using more fertilizers to mechanization to advanced plant breeding.

Nina Fedoroff

PlantAgricultureThreeAheadRace

When the Nobel Peace Prize Committee designated me the recipient of the 1970 award for my contribution to the 'green revolution,' they were in effect, I believe, selecting an individual to symbolize the vital role of agriculture and food production in a world that is hungry, both for bread and for peace.

Norman Borlaug

FoodPeaceMeGreenWorldBelieve

As human beings, we aren't as individual as we'd like to believe we are. And I think that's what makes acting possible. Despite the fact that I have not experienced something, I have it in my human capacity to imagine it and to put myself in someone else's shoes, and to take someone else's circumstances personally.

Lupita Nyong'o

ShoesMyselfBelieveThinkSomeone

I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate the acclaim from the act of writing.

Kim Edwards

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