Alexandra Petri Quotes


I would say 'competence' actually might be slightly more important than passion. I understand that it is important to feel strongly about things, but give me a competent dentist over a passionate dentist any day, if only because something about the phrase 'passionate dentist' is deeply unnerving.


Citations

Petri, Alexandra. A Field Guide to Awkward Silences. New American Library, 2015.

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Alexandra Petri
Alexandra Petri
  • Born: March 15, 1988
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Humorist Writer

Alexandra Petri is an American humorist and newspaper columnist. In 2010, she became the youngest person to have a column in The Washington Post. Petri runs the ComPost blog on the paper's website, on which she formerly worked with Dana Milbank. In 2017, a piece of satire she wrote about president Donald Trump was miscategorized as news and included in one of the White House's daily press briefings. She was recognized in the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2018.