Alexandra Petri Quotes

Journalists run many risks. It comes with the profession.

Alexandra Petri

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RisksRunProfessionMany

When you're in a slump, you do something different, just to try it. I remember one time I was in a slump, and I borrowed one of Henry Aaron's bats and hit two homers. I used my own bats the next night. I just needed a change.

Joe Torre

ChangeTimeNightRememberYouTry

I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

Joel Osteen

MarriageGodThinkWaySame-Sex

The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.

Robert Mugabe

WelcomeEqualityPeopleWhiteLand

While I wouldn't wish being teased on anyone, I think it eventually leads to a kind of solidarity in adult life. The few people I know who weren't picked on in school are people I find I can't relate to on much more than a surface level. There's a sensitivity that comes with feeling like an outsider at some point in your life.

Anna Kendrick

LifeSchoolPeopleThinkWishFind

I'm a sucker for emotionally exploitative cello.

John Tiffany

CelloSuckerEmotionallyExploitative

Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.

Alvar Aalto

NatureContentMustFormLinked

One of the challenges of the church is to accept humanity for all it is.

Tom Shadyac

ChallengesChurchHumanityAccept

We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around.

Mitch Daniels

LifeGovernmentBelieveWayBenefit

I have never believed in my own ability to succeed at everything. I recognize I'm a human being like everybody else, and I make mistakes and fall short time and again.

Mitt Romney

TimeMistakesSucceedShortFall

Looking back, I am grateful for so many friends who helped me in my youth to gain a testimony of the restored Church of Jesus Christ. First, I exercised simple faith in their testimonies, and then I received the divine witness of the Spirit to my mind and to my heart.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

FaithHeartGratefulSimpleMindMe

Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.

Clifford Stoll

PowerMeWorldPageRealStatus

Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.

Clara Mamet

LoveTimingHimDialogueFaster

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