Alexandra Petri Quotes
I am a millennial. Destruction is all I know. I no longer care what I wipe from the face of the Earth.
Quotes to Explore
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Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
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In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.
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There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
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In fourth grade, I was interested in all areas of science. I particularly loved learning about how the earth was created.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
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The first view of the Earth is magical... in such a small planet, with such a small ribbon of life, so much goes on. It is as if the whole place is sacred. You get the feeling that I need to work extraordinarily hard along with other human beings to respect that.
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Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground.
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Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting.
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Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.
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I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.
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History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish for the next 30 in low Earth orbit. At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.
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I just want to raise a confident girl. I just want her to know that she doesn't need to be sending naked pictures and doing all that stuff - I'm definitely going to monitor everything. I want to raise her to know that she can go do whatever she wants in life and to be comfortable in her own skin, which I think also just comes with age and time.
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I am the black sheep of my family. They are all super talented and intelligent and got proper jobs. Most of my family is in medicine, actually. They are all too clever to be doing what I do.
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I am a millennial. Destruction is all I know. I no longer care what I wipe from the face of the Earth.
