Alexandra Petri Quotes

Life has its trade-offs. As you age, you lose things like teeth and the ability to play in the ball pit at fast-food restaurants, and you gain things like experience and employer-based health insurance.

Alexandra Petri

• Life
• Experience
• Age
• Food
• Health
• Insurance

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• My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • See
  • Throw

• The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Great
  • Together
  • Parents

• That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

  

  Quintilian
  • Perfection
  • Which
  • Soon

• As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Power
  • Inspiration
  • Beauty

• We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Attention
  • Band
  • Enough

• I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • People
  • Find
  • Hard

• We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • World
  • America
  • Change

• I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • School
  • Love
  • Sports

• Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Political
  • Faith
  • Religious

• The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Identity
  • Own
  • Weakness

• As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Beauty
  • Old
  • Grow

• Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Want
  • Death
  • Point

• Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • World
  • Country
  • Grow

• Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Father
  • Parents

• I love girl power.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Love
  • Power
  • Girl

• I never set out to do this - getting to No. 1 in the 'New York Times' bestseller list wasn't even a pipedream.

  

  E. L. James
  • Never
  • New
  • New York

• Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Children
  • America
  • High

• Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.

  

  Billy Bragg
  • Job

• I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. So, yeah, that's how I'd define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • People
  • Long

• There's a group of 12 oak trees on my property in California that I call 'my disciples.' Their branches form a canopy over the ground, and I sit underneath them for inspiration.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Inspiration
  • California
  • Group

• Food insecurity is not remotely the same as hunger.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Food
  • Insecurity

• Life has its trade-offs. As you age, you lose things like teeth and the ability to play in the ball pit at fast-food restaurants, and you gain things like experience and employer-based health insurance.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Age