Alexandra Petri Quotes

George W. Bush has dutifully, if not intentionally, provided Americans with laughs for nearly a decade. He has also made them cry, sometimes for the same reason.

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• It's lovely to be considered pretty and lovely to do photo shoots, and I just love fashion. But I'm proud that I did the characters I wanted to do.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Pretty
  • Fashion
  • Proud

• I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Fiction
  • Fan
  • Historical

• When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Great
  • Earth
  • Grow

• I wood-shedded for a year to play Grandma's simple stuff. It's not that simple, and I don't use picks the way she does. But I played them as authentically as I could, with the flat-picking.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Play
  • Stuff
  • Grandma

• For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.

  

  Kate Bush
  • School
  • Responsibility
  • Child

• I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Trying

• I used to love going and playing jam sessions, doing things spontaneously. I can't do that anymore. Everything you do is documented, nothing is casual anymore.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Playing
  • Casual
  • Sessions

• In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Work
  • Business
  • Movie

• I am always looking for options that yield something unexpected.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Unexpected
  • Options

• I don't spend a lot of time online. My mother's really good at picking out if she sees a really great review, and she'll forward it to me. She's like my little Internet filter. It's always nice to see something going up; if I want to find something on Nathan Fillion, I do know where to look, but I've got a nice little delivery system in my mom.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Mom

• I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Money
  • Never
  • Enough

• As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Car
  • Over
  • Coming

• Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic and political life must work to overcome useless and counterproductive polarisation, and to find solutions to domestic, regional and international problems.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Life
  • Work
  • Political

• You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • You
  • Government

• Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarreling?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Different
  • Long

• There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Regret

• I knew I was crazy because I was watching Jesus Christ Superstar and the part where Jesus carries the cross up the mountain, I actually said to myself, 'Wow! That must be a really good workout! Yeah, because you're doing arms and cardio!'

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Up
  • Good
  • Crazy

• Slavery is, as you justly complain, a sad blot on our free country.

  

  James Madison
  • Country
  • Free
  • Sad

• If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.

  

  Ice T
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• Look at the facts as they truly are, not as you want them to be.

  

  Judy Smith
  • Want
  • Facts
  • Truly

• So ambitious men, if they find the way open for their rising, and still get forward, they are rather busy than dangerous; but if they be checked in their desires, they become secretly discontent, and look upon men and matters with an evil eye, and are best pleased, when things go backward.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Men
  • Evil

• It just feels like I'm on the right path musically and I'm in the right mindset to continue out my mission in music because I'm not putting myself in a box.

  

  Brandy
  • Music
  • Mission
  • Box

• George W. Bush has dutifully, if not intentionally, provided Americans with laughs for nearly a decade. He has also made them cry, sometimes for the same reason.

  

  Alexandra Petri