Jeanne Marie Laskas Quotes
LaGuardia is jammed into just 680 urban acres; taxiways are tight; runways intersect; you can't launch a departure until the arrival on the other runway crosses the threshold or else the airplanes will ... collide.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.
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My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. That would be my dream.
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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.
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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
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I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.
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I was always the freaky Asian girl who drew these weird-looking Barbie dolls in class.
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I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.
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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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People who know very little about ancient Egypt are most likely, if they know anything at all, to have at least a vague idea about the Pharaoh Akhenaten and be able to recognize the face of his beautiful wife, Nefertiti.
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In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people.
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I had a hit talk show. I just wasn't working for the right people.
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Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.
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Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.
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Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.
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Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.
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I felt that by the late '90s, I'd gone as far as I could with the keyboard.
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You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.
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LaGuardia is jammed into just 680 urban acres; taxiways are tight; runways intersect; you can't launch a departure until the arrival on the other runway crosses the threshold or else the airplanes will ... collide.
