Jeanne Marie Laskas Quotes

Importing foreign labor has always been the American way, beginning with 4 million slaves from Africa. Later came the Jews and Poles, the Hungarians, Italians and Irish, the Chinese and Japanese - everything you learned in sixth grade social studies about the great American melting pot.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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GreatBeginningAmericanYouLabor

There's a great deal of scientific evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector of emotional well-being, and I think there's no question that social isolation has greatly increased in our culture in, say, the past 50 years, past 100 years.

Andrew Weil

GreatCulturePastIsolationThink

Feed the troops on victory.

John Monash

VictoryFeedTroops

I'd like to think my brand shares some of those characteristics we like to think of as classically American - a certain straightforwardness, honesty, a sense of humor, inclusiveness, practicality - all those great Yankee traits. And I don't mean the baseball team.

Michael Bastian

HonestyGreatHumorBaseballTeam

Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.

John Stossel

CompetitionDieTrustworthyBoth

I think when someone who's known for doing drama does a comedy but just tries to be funny, that's a mistake.

Steve Carell

FunnyMistakeThinkComedyDoing

I actually had the pleasure of meeting David Bowie at his 50th birthday party in New York City. I handed him the cassette of 'Eight Arms to Hold You,' which I had just got an advance of that day. He very graciously thanked me and tucked it into his jacket pocket.

Louise Post

BirthdayDayNew YorkCityMeYou

If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too.

Doug Davidson

LifeSadTimeHappyWinMoments

Go on, then, and let your intent be seriousness.

Donald Cargill

GoIntentYourSeriousnessThen

I guess I'm a black woman with a mouth.

Corrine Brown

WomanBlackMouthGuess

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Plato

GovernmentEqualityDemocracyVariety

I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done.

Peabo Bryson

JobTryingPageDoneSameGet

Art is forever.

Thomas Kinkade

ArtForever

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