Jeanne Marie Laskas Quotes

Mike Webster lost all his money or, maybe, gave it away. He forgot. A lot of lawsuits. Mike Webster forgot how to eat, too. Soon, Mike Webster was homeless, living in a truck, one of its windows replaced with a garbage bag and tape.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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• I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Think
  • Hate
  • Hatred

• You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
  • Real
  • Art

• A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Nothing
  • Prove
  • Accomplished

• There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.

  

  Ian Botham
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Two

• In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Winning
  • Moment
  • Luck

• I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Up
  • American
  • America

• I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Creativity

• We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • People
  • Life
  • Yourself

• You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Life
  • Chance

• When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Future
  • Past
  • Mistake

• The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Young
  • Won
  • Claim

• The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Universe
  • Two
  • Stupidity

• I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Age
  • Group
  • Belong

• You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • War
  • You
  • Peace

• For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • American
  • High
  • Culture

• In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Time
  • World
  • Business

• I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Think
  • Start
  • Pressure

• Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Guy
  • You
  • Follow

• The problem with revenge is that it never evens the score. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain. Both are stuck on the escalator as long as parity is demanded, and the escalator never stops.

  

  Lewis B. Smedes
  • Long
  • Pain
  • Revenge

• Working with Danny Thomas was truly an adventure every week. Danny didn't always say the words as they appeared in the script. I learned more by osmosis than by sitting down together. He was a force to be reckoned with: an explorer of television.

  

  Angela Cartwright
  • Together
  • Words
  • Adventure

• Tell me your relation to pain, and I will tell you who you are!

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Pain
  • Relation

• I just wanted to give them the 'Lost Jewelry' so they can say, 'Yo, they get that's mean.' And then when I tell 'em, 'Yo, that ain't even the meal. Get ready for the meal!' That's when we 'bout to go crazy because the taste of the appetizer.

  

  Raekwon
  • Lost
  • Crazy
  • Jewelry

• Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Thinking
  • Money
  • Business

• Mike Webster lost all his money or, maybe, gave it away. He forgot. A lot of lawsuits. Mike Webster forgot how to eat, too. Soon, Mike Webster was homeless, living in a truck, one of its windows replaced with a garbage bag and tape.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Truck