Jeanne Marie Laskas Quotes
Seagulls are a landfill nuisance because they fly away with food scraps and, as is their reputation, fight each other over them midflight, often losing them, and soon a lady has a half-eaten hamburger splashing into her backyard pool.

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It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.
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I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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Finally, I want to make the point that we are Republicans. We are the majority. It is going to be a little more difficult because we have to govern and come up with ideas.
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I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.
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We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
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I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.
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It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
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I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.
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A Web site is the only medium of semipermanent communication where you can express yourself.
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The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or unhumanly pass a pin through the body of a fly, will in all probabiilty, as he increases in years, feel no more compunction at tormenting a fellow-creature, than he did in witnessing the wreathing agonies of a fly.
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Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.
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The terrorists hide behind Allah.
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Seagulls are a landfill nuisance because they fly away with food scraps and, as is their reputation, fight each other over them midflight, often losing them, and soon a lady has a half-eaten hamburger splashing into her backyard pool.