Alexandra Petri Quotes

The problem with technology, as with fashion, is that it's impossible to be 'in' forever.

Alexandra Petri

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• The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Live
  • Dreams
  • Vacation

• Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • World
  • Real
  • Progress

• To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Fun
  • Gay
  • Pride

• I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highest principles of what it means to be a Jew, to be a Christian, to be a Muslim.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Live
  • Friends
  • Perfect

• When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Team
  • Worry
  • Learn

• In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Politics
  • Research
  • Peers

• Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Up
  • Today

• The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Health
  • Quality
  • Care

• I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Up
  • Job
  • Want

• I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Simple
  • Like
  • Thing

• I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Thought
  • Stupid

• I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Experience
  • Food
  • Lost

• To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Me
  • Easy
  • Cat

• When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Movie

• When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Money
  • You
  • Desire

• Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Help
  • Today
  • Free

• They hate whom they fear.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Fear
  • Hate
  • Whom

• There's this fascination in America that more is better: we want that procedure. And more is not necessarily better when it comes to health care. We as consumers really need to understand that.

  

  Matthew Heineman
  • America
  • Health

• I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same - lighting, color, structure, and so on - certainly traditional and ordinary problems.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Problem
  • Painting
  • Color

• The best form of welfare for the troops is first-rate training.

  

  Erwin Rommel
  • Training
  • Welfare
  • Troops

• So to all Americans, in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, and from ocean to ocean, hear these words: You will never be ignored again. Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way.

  

  Donald Trump
  • American
  • Words
  • Small

• The problem with technology, as with fashion, is that it's impossible to be 'in' forever.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Technology
  • Fashion
  • Forever