Alexandra Petri Quotes

At Harvard, where students tend to respond to real-world celebrities with the vague sense that they could do a better job themselves, the recipe for celebrity is complex.

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• The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Single
  • Powerful
  • Impossible

• You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• Where love is, there God is also.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Love
  • For Her

• He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Fun

• When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Best

• Time stays, we go.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Go
  • Stays

• I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.

  

  J. Cole
  • Want
  • Man
  • Science

• I sat behind Thurman Thomas for my first couple of years, then my first year starting I won the Heisman. After I won the Heisman, that's when things changed as far as going to the NFL.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Couple
  • First
  • Year

• Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Love
  • Bad
  • Green

• I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Beliefs

• One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Needs
  • Barbecue
  • DJ

• I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Always
  • More
  • Push

• I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Religious
  • Hair
  • Never

• Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Hope
  • You
  • Human

• I never liked you, and I always will.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • You
  • Funny
  • Always

• I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Security
  • Jeans
  • Followed

• If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Against

• It's a mistake to ask a work of art to be all things to all people.

  

  David Salle
  • People
  • Things
  • Mistake

• I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and to the extent that his merciful love allowed, have embraced with all my heart, now one, now the other, of these feet.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Lord
  • Privileged

• I think escapism is very important, certainly in my life. I love nothing more than escaping into the world of a film or a novel. To be involved in creating that for other people is a privilege.

  

  Ben Barnes
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• As CEO, I believe my most important job is to both define reality and inspire hope for the PayPal team. Defining reality includes being realistic about all the things that could go wrong so that we are prepared to navigate those challenges.

  

  Dan Schulman
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Job

• I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home.

  

  Evelyn Glennie
  • Work
  • Job
  • Travel

• At Harvard, where students tend to respond to real-world celebrities with the vague sense that they could do a better job themselves, the recipe for celebrity is complex.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • World
  • Real
  • Job