Alexandra Petri Quotes

It is possible to assemble a narrative for yourself, brokenly, on social media, only seeing what you want to look at.

Alexandra Petri

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• There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Alone
  • Looking
  • U.S.

• I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Real
  • Feel
  • Learn

• Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Art
  • Business
  • Design

• Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Thinking
  • Community
  • Powerful

• What can you do? You're never going to be - I'm sure there are people out there who think Cindy Crawford isn't pretty.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Think
  • Pretty

• When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Music
  • You
  • Timeless

• For skincare, I'm a Clean and Clear girl. Especially with the humidity in Georgia, Clean and Clear has been pretty good to me with all of the makeup we have to wear. My skin really responds to that product. I'm also a big fan of Kiehl's under-eye avocado cream.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• In closing, let me just thank God, on the floor of the House, for not turning away from us even though we seem to be turning away from Him.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • God
  • House
  • Me

• I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Artist
  • Writer
  • Verbs

• Panama is a country that's been dealing with issues of identity since its very birth. It was born on Wall Street. It was born out of engineering construction. It was the canal. Because of the canal, the country was born, so the country has been divided into pro-canal and against-canal people for so long.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• Any chance to get out and play live for some people and get out of the studio is nice.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Live
  • Nice

• There's gonna be people that don't like you, regardless. But I take on the mentality of, 'Look, I'm gonna do whatever I want to do. If people don't like, they don't like it.'

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Want
  • Look

• Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Important
  • True
  • Self

• If I were a customer, and I was given a dish with peppers, I would hate it. I also don't like blood sausage.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Hate
  • Blood
  • Customer

• I wanted to be the Dutch Bruce Jenner - that was my goal. He was my hero.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Goal
  • Hero
  • Wanted

• Style is something very individual, very personal, and in their own unique way, I believe everyone is stylish.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Believe
  • Style
  • Unique

• Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Power
  • Black
  • Same

• I dunno. This game is getting funnier and funnier. We do everything but punch 'em in the nose and here we are all tied up in the Series. We flatten 'em by scores of 16-3, 10-0 and 12-0 and we still need one more to win. How do you figure that? Don't write this, but even if they beat us tomorrow, we're the better club.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Up
  • Game

• I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.

  

  Charlayne Hunter-Gault

• To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Hope
  • Want
  • Running

• The country has been patient, we have been patient, but now ordinary Americans are being seriously harmed by this dispute.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Country
  • Patient
  • Dispute

• The Arctic Ocean encircles with a belt of eternal ice the desert confines of Siberia and North America--the uttermost limits of the Old and New worlds, separated by the narrow, channel, known as Behring's Straits.

  

  Eugene Sue
  • Limits
  • Ice
  • Channel

• In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

  

  Augusto Roa Bastos
  • Moments
  • Humanity

• It is possible to assemble a narrative for yourself, brokenly, on social media, only seeing what you want to look at.

  

  Alexandra Petri