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.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • America
  • Immigration
  • Nation

• '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.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Great
  • King

• 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.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• 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

• 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.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Done
  • Water
  • Myself

• We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Himself
  • Tone

• How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Beautiful
  • Right
  • Expression

• I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • World
  • Music
  • Education

• I was always the freaky Asian girl who drew these weird-looking Barbie dolls in class.

  

  Yaya Han
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Weird

• 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.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Time
  • World
  • Think

• To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Respect
  • Laws
  • Watch

• 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.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Wife

• I had a hit talk show. I just wasn't working for the right people.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Right
  • Working

• Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • School
  • Business
  • Committed

• Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Past
  • Identity
  • Challenges

• I'm happy when I have, like, one fan, but the fact that I'm getting fans from different places and different communities, it's really amazing.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Different
  • Happy
  • Amazing

• I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Kids
  • History
  • Feel

• I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Acting
  • Historian
  • Confusing

• As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Doubt
  • motivation

• A wig is a wig is a wig.

  

  Billy Zane

• One thing that we've been working on since the beginning of the year is being able to finish on the break as far as making the right play, if it's a finish or making the next pass, i feel like we're doing a good job with that.

  

  Avery Bradley
  • Working
  • Finish
  • Pass

• 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.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas