Alexandra Petri Quotes

All the young voters who flocked to Obama in droves grew up watching 'The Daily Show' and the 'Colbert Report.'

Alexandra Petri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

DailyYoungWatchingUpShowWho

We all make judgments on people, but some are much more brutal than others. It's easy to say, 'Ya know, I'm not crazy about what she's wearing,' but you don't have to be nasty about it, and you don't have to be public about it.

Joan Jett

PeopleCrazyEasyYouKnowSay

For decades, I've spoken of McDonald's as one of the premier examples of how to build a company, scale it, and ultimately sell it.

Michael Gerber

McDonaldBuildCompanySellHow

If you are planning to save the planet, it will not be Tesla that will do it, since only a finite number of people can afford to buy one, even a $35,000 Model 3.

Anand Mahindra

PeoplePlanningYouWillBuyPlanet

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.

Stanislav Grof

ScienceThinkingAnimalsHumanAtoms

The way the mind decodes music is an individual mystery. But the physical circumstances can change the way you listen.

Simon McBurney

ChangeMusicMindMysteryYouWay

I've had these lips all my life, and I love them.

Trinny Woodall

LifeLoveMy LifeLipsThemI Love

I think I'll always draw from being a person that doesn't know how to have a normal life, whatever a normal life is.

Mary Gauthier

LifeThinkPersonKnowWhateverHow

I had done a couple of plays, but I was a clueless boob. 'Cosby' allowed me to have something on my resume that was real and then the producers of 'Guiding Light' let me play a preppy killer just the following month. Suddenly I had two gigs on my resume that made me look like a real actor, although I was far from it.

Michael Weatherly

LightMeLookPlayResumeDone

I learn how to put myself in situations at practice that cause me to zone in on what I'm trying to accomplish at meets. I try to make my practice surrounding as close to competition pressure to focus on what I need to do on the big stage.

Michelle Carter

MyselfFocusCompetitionPracticeMe

Sometimes it's important to vote - you know, to make a statement, to make a point; certainly, many of us who were involved in the Nader campaign in 2000 felt that way.

Michael Moore

YouKnowImportantSometimesVote

If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.

Mitch Albom

LifeStartYouAliveDyingYour

Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries.

Jon Lord

MeFreeJazzNothingBoundaries

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Alexandra Petri