Alexandra Petri Quotes

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• If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Road
  • Internet
  • Name

• I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Like
  • Body
  • Dress

• Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Moment
  • Become
  • Significance

• When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Man
  • Kind
  • Enjoy

• People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Career
  • Control

• Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • America
  • Future
  • Past

• How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Woman

• I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • Wife
  • Missing
  • Police

• But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Great
  • High
  • Feeling

• Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Fashion
  • Youth
  • Dollars

• If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Married

• I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.

  

  Kaki King
  • People
  • Want
  • Play

• Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Goals
  • Just

• When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Up
  • Respect
  • End

• How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Important
  • Way
  • Best

• I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Always

• The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Opportunities
  • Wherever

• Actually, I used to be a busboy in a strip joint in New York and so I hate strip joints. I'm not that kind of person.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Hate
  • New
  • New York

• What do you mean, you 'don't believe in homosexuality?' It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.

  

  Lea DeLaria
  • Believe
  • Easter

• In Salford, we had fish in our tap water. I remember, one hot summer day, running to the toilet at playtime and dunking our heads in a sink full of water. I remember putting my head in and seeing all these little fish in it.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
  • Remember
  • Running
  • Water

• If you or me go to the gas station to fill up our car and it costs us much more than we expected, it will zap our discretionary income. We won't have the extra money to buy that washing machine or new winter coat-all big ticket items that are important to economic growth.

  

  Maria Bartiromo
  • Up
  • Important
  • Money

• I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Character
  • Play
  • Doubt

• At the end of the day, the priority is to perform, and the priority is to know that even if women aren't in the spotlight or in the limelight the whole time, we're still bringing in results, and we're still doing what we do best. For me, I'm doing what I love: I love training, I love kayaking and racing, and I'm getting results. Life is good.

  

  Jessica Fox
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Some information is important, and some is not, and intelligence consists in knowing one from the other.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Important