Jeanne Marie Laskas Quotes

Seagulls are a landfill nuisance because they fly away with food scraps and, as is their reputation, fight each other over them midflight, often losing them, and soon a lady has a half-eaten hamburger splashing into her backyard pool.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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FoodFightLosingFlyReputation

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

MirrorBehaviorEveryoneImageShows

I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.

Anna Held

PeopleWishSaidCryWantI Wish

When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.

Andy Warhol

ThinkYouKindMuseumsLikeStores

When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.

Steve Coogan

YouthComedyYouCareerStudentOut

I think the way I love talking about my faith is through my story because I think that's all we have to work with sometimes. I think it's the most moving way to share your story, too - is what you know, what you've seen and heard and tasted and felt.

Mat Kearney

WorkLoveFaithMovingStoryThink

Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.

Douglas Coupland

LazyNothingCrimeTVElseTurned

I came to the conclusion that I'm not going to give up cycling because some people are cheating.

Bradley Wiggins

PeopleCheatingSome PeopleUpGoing

Many medical students, like most American patients, confuse science and technology. They think that what it means to be a scientific doctor is to bring to bear the maximum amount of technology on any given patient. And this makes them dangerous.

Alice Dreger

TechnologyScienceMedicalDoctor

I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'

Pete Townshend

MusicMirrorSocietyEleganceRock

The world is made up of good and evil, and everybody has their own take, and everybody thinks they are on the good side, and a very few, select group of us will admit that we come from the dark side.

Shane Douglas

GoodGood And EvilEvilWorldDark

I just want to touch something deep in the heart of humanity. I don't know if that's in movies, producing films, or writing a book, but I'm concerned about our spiritual well-being as a human race. I want to impact people in a way that makes us all reach for our best.

Nicole Ari Parker

HeartBestSpiritualPeopleWriting

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

Nigel Dennis

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