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Jeanne Marie Laskas Quotes

On a foggy, steel gray Saturday in September 2002, Bennet Omalu arrived at the Allegheny County coroner's office and got his assignment for the day: Perform an autopsy on the body of Mike Webster, a professional football player.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american

Topics

Day Football Saturday Body Steel

I was a naval officer and aviator. I tested airplanes and got selected to be an astronaut later on.

Jim Lovell

Got Officer Later Astronaut Naval

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

John Maynard Keynes

Long Run Dead Misleading Guide

Climate change is crap.

Tony Abbott

Change Climate Change Climate Crap

I became an actress because I'm lazy. I wouldn't apply myself at school.

Michelle Gomez

Myself School Lazy Because Actress

Whenever we say a person's name, notice whether we have stated more than a fact. For example, the judgment, 'She's thoughtless' goes beyond the facts 'She said she'd call me and she didn't.'

Joko Beck

Me Facts Name Person Said Say

It's not that I don't want to do commercial films, but if my part is just to look pretty, I'm not up for it. I'd do a role that expresses something. It's not that I don't want to look good, but give me a part where I have scope to perform.

Disha Patani

Good Me Look Want Up Pretty

Creating a poem is a continual process of re-creating your ignorance, in the sense of not knowing what's coming next.

Derek Walcott

Ignorance Process Not Knowing Knowing

Once I got to college, it seemed that the Hamptons were a little bit too posh for me and didn't represent the kind of values I was embracing in my late teens. So, I didn't go out there, except to visit my parents, for a long time. And then, after 9/11, I discovered it was a nice, mellow place to hang out.

Colson Whitehead

Time Parents College Me Long Values

I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren't historical that nobody had ever thought of doing before.

Brian Eno

Technology Think Thought Problem

My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers to program the software, and these guys were true hackers, trying to get more colors and sound and animation out of those computers.

Bre Pettis

Children Parents Colors Computers

We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work, courage and personal responsibility.

Brian Sandoval

Work Hard Work Opportunity Courage

I don't understand the iPhone. I just don't get it. Don't ya'll have to write serious emails throughout the day? How can you possibly manage detailed missives on a phone with no keys?

Ava DuVernay

Day You Phone Serious Understand