Jeanne Marie Laskas quote: "Ndamukong started out playing soccer, like his sister before him. She excelled at it, played for Mississippi State, made the Cameroon national team."

Football is in a guy's DNA. A primal thing. You should play it so you can talk about the glory d...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

If chronic bashing of the head could destroy a boxer's brain, couldn't it also destroy a foo...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

Mike Webster's death was significant. Iron Mike. The best center in the NFL. Nine-time Pro Bowle...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

Dead at 50. Mike Webster! Nine-time Pro Bowler. Hall of Famer. 'Iron Mike,' legendary Steele...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

'The melancholy of all things done' is the way Buzz once described his complete mental break...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

'Affable' is the word that often comes up from reporters, even staunch critics, who meet Lou...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

Whether we buy into the rhetoric or not, one thing has been made clear: Illegal immigration is a pro...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

By 2012, Dan Gilbert was well over his LeBron James-abandonment hissy fit. He opened Cleveland's...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

People assume NFL cheerleaders are within some vague sniffing distance of the good life, but a Ben-G...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

One cheerleader per season per NFL squad is chosen to attend the Pro Bowl in Hawaii. All season long...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

The Gun Control Act of 1968 was an attempt to impose order. It set up the Federal Firearms License (...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

Pearl Harbor? Michael Bay doing a movie about the single most devastating, most holy day in United S...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

Bob Dole. He's like the neighbors' Labrador retriever your dad used to curse for all that ba...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

The island is named Oooguruk, an Inupiaq word meaning 'bearded seal,' an animal plentiful on...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

There's no telling how many guns we have in America - and when one gets used in a crime, no way ...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

Getting Richard Norris his new face wasn't easy. For starters, doctors needed a donor who wasn&#...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

Bob Dole is not a romantic, at least not an immediate one. Bob Dole is not one to waste a lot of tim...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

You can't think 'Dole' without thinking 'Bob Dole' and cartoons and third-person...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

When people spot Fallon in public, they do not shriek or drool or go wobbly in the knees. It's a...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

Contrary to popular mythology, not all NFL cheerleaders are bimbos or strippers or bored pretty girl...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

Maine is the largest producer of wild blueberries in the world. The woody plants occur naturally in ...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

The new disease was named chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and the NFL fervently and repeatedly den...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

On a foggy, steel gray Saturday in September 2002, Bennet Omalu arrived at the Allegheny County coro...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

Coal mines make the news only when they explode, collapse, kill. It's exciting! Tragedy! Fodder ...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

People have known for thousands of years that oil was abundant on Alaska's North Slope, a vast t...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

Bob Dole is not a bitter man. That part is jarring. His life was hard.
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

The brain is suspended in a kind of thick jelly inside the skull, and a helmet can't keep it fro...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

The Puente Hills Landfill, about sixteen miles east of downtown Los Angeles, serves 5 million people...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

One of the ways a landfill engineer anywhere in the world earns bragging rights is if he can pour hi...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

In the Dobbsian view of America, the mainstream media isn't evil because it's liberal but be...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

LaGuardia is jammed into just 680 urban acres; taxiways are tight; runways intersect; you can't ...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

Every coal miner I talked to had, in his history, at least one story of a cave-in. 'Yeah, he got...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

Seagulls are a landfill nuisance because they fly away with food scraps and, as is their reputation,...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

In 2003, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and a year later, a national ethics committee in ...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

Now, brooder is an interesting word. People who worry a lot in silence are known as brooders. But th...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

Every vice president since Mondale has lived up on this hill, on the twelve-acre campus of the Naval...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

When he emerged Lou Dobbs the populist, he was so hard to peg. A mishmash of contradictions: anti-ou...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

In Arizona, anyone over 18 can buy an assault rifle, at 21 you can get a pistol, and you can carry y...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

Omalu first found the tau 'threads' in the brain of former Steeler Mike Webster in 2002 and ...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

Mike Webster lost all his money or, maybe, gave it away. He forgot. A lot of lawsuits. Mike Webster ...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

It's the subconcussive hits, the constant bam, bam, bam that linemen like Suh give and receive. ...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

Buzz was, of course, the second man to walk on the moon. Buzz made a rap video, 'Rocket Experien...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

As a closeted gay man, Jim McGreevey lived a life of presentation, a gay man portraying a straight m...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

I'm not a sportswriter.
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

The National Tracing Center is not allowed to have centralized computer data.
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

Brooding is more something I do when I'm working. I know so much more about sitting around worrying ...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.
JEANNE-MARIE ROLAND

Yes, yes," said the Beast, "my heart is good, but still I am a monster."

Among mankind,"...
JEANNE-MARIE LEPRINCE DE BEAUMONT

Plus je vois le homes, plus j’admire les chiens” (The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs)...
MARIE-JEANNE ROLAND DE LA PLATIèRE

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it ...
JEANNE MOREAU

Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don&#...
JEANNE MOREAU

The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.
JEANNE MOREAU

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.
JEANNE MOREAU

All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.
JEANNE MOREAU

Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.
JEANNE MOREAU

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then su...
JEANNE MOREAU

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures ...
JEANNE MOREAU

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.
JEANNE MOREAU

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am ...
JEANNE MOREAU

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to...
JEANNE MOREAU

I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I d...
JEANNE MOREAU

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.
JEANNE MOREAU

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
JEANNE MOREAU

People's opinions don't interfere with me.
JEANNE MOREAU

Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I t...
JEANNE MOREAU

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the...
JEANNE MOREAU

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're givi...
JEANNE MOREAU

Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.
JEANNE MOREAU

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
JEANNE MOREAU

As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in ...
JEANNE MOREAU

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
JEANNE MOREAU

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he do...
JEANNE MOREAU

Failure is a disappointment but not defeat.
JEANNE ROBERTSON

I passed by the row of meats at the Safeway and was afraid to buy Wall St Journal reporter on the Di...
JEANNE CUMMINGS

All the world's a cage.
JEANNE PHILLIPS

Although there have been warnings that it was coming for years, the Alzheimer's epidemic is here...
JEANNE PHILLIPS

People's opinions don't interfere with me. Ageing gracefully is supposed to mean trying not ...
JEANNE MOREAU

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
JEANNE MOREAU

You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to ...
JEANNE MOREAU

It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see ...
JEANNE MOREAU

Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.
JEANNE CALMENT

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.
JEANNE CALMENT

It has its perks, being Mrs. Chancellor, and if I have to use it, by golly, I'll use it. I'm...
JEANNE COOPER

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.
JEANNE MOREAU

The government doesn't really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of gr...
JEANNE TRIPPLEHORN

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
JEANNE MOREAU

Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
JEANNE MOREAU

The line with its rod is a long instrument whose lesser end holds a small reptile, while the other ...
JEANNE GUYET

La ligne, avec sa canne, est un long instrument, Dont le plus mince bout tient un petit reptile, ...
JEANNE GUYET

We need to go out and find that match, and we've gotten some support from various foundations and en...
JEANNE ASHLEY

So you see, we offer a lot more than just sports.
JEANNE ASHLEY

The interest in programs for 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds is unbelievable. I think that's because they are...
JEANNE ASHLEY

The growing interest is coming from our adult and senior populations, with a need for more family-or...
JEANNE ASHLEY

We're excited about qualifying for the tournament. It's our first goal. We want to continue to focus...
JEANNE ARBUCKLE

There's still a lot of softball to be played. We would like for the tournament to be here but our go...
JEANNE ARBUCKLE

I was proud the way we came back after the loss. We did a much better job offensively and defensivel...
JEANNE ARBUCKLE

I give a lot of credit to Wilmington for their win in the first game. They strung together some hits...
JEANNE ARBUCKLE

We're struggling a little bit with some injuries but we've got great depth and we feel good about th...
JEANNE ARBUCKLE

It's important to recognize that charter schools are public schools, and that it is better for your ...
JEANNE ALLEN

We call it the ripple in a great big water.
JEANNE ALLEN

There is a correlation between top-scoring laws and the quality of the charter environment in that s...
JEANNE ALLEN

For a long time, parents did not have more than a modest amount of information about what really sch...
JEANNE ALLEN

School districts are more clever than any legislator who can put this into existence. [Districts] ca...
JEANNE ALLEN

The 65 percent solution is the equivalent of a chicken in every pot.
JEANNE ALLEN

In theory, it's great. But I'm concerned that repeatedly when we look around the most troubled schoo...
JEANNE ALLEN

There's a backlash in traditionally high-quality suburban school districts from parents who are star...
JEANNE ALLEN

D.C. charter schools lead the pack in terms of market share.
JEANNE ALLEN

They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment pr...
JEANNE ALLEN

But we're all so different, we're different ages; we're not vying for the same roles. Th...
JEANNE TRIPPLEHORN

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
JEANNE MOREAU

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talen...
JEANNE MOREAU

People who take more than their share usually feel an inflated sense of entitlement.
JEANNE PHILLIPS

Let's create jobs by bringing the Shaheen-Portman bipartisan energy efficiency bill to the floor...
JEANNE SHAHEEN

My house was built in 1986 and it is flat with the street. When we moved in there were no houses nex...
JEANNE PHILLIPS

I don't think I'm a flaming radical.
JEANNE PHILLIPS

The Internet interprets the US Congress as system damage and routes around it.
JEANNE DEVOTO

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes...
JEANNE MOREAU

Any Democratic statement of core beliefs about the importance of families must include all our famil...
JEANNE SHAHEEN

Am I odd?Is there something wrong with me,like Mrs.Tifton Said?"

Skye knelt down on the w...
JEANNE BIRDSALL

People sometimes make unexpected choices when they're lonely
JEANNE BIRDSALL

And I don't know if Batty's gotten over it yet,' said Skye.

Mr. Penderwick looked out the...
JEANNE BIRDSALL

...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.
JEANNE BIRDSALL

Jane,' she said, climbing down from the chair. 'Remember last year when I built that model wind towe...
JEANNE BIRDSALL

He who hugs too much, hugs badly!
JEANNE CALMENT

The cuter the boy, the mushier your brain.
JEANNE BIRDSALL

People didn't make life, so they can't destroy it. Even if we were to wipe out every bit of life in ...
JEANNE DUPRAU

He said this is your first game. It's going to be called Kingdom Seekers.
JEANNE DRAY

Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.
JEANNE MOREAU

When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. Th...
JEANNE DUPRAU

If your dog accidentally injures somebody or damages their property, you are covered under your insu...
JEANNE SALVATORE

Clearly they're calling into question a lot of things that are absolutely untrue (sic), ... The alli...
JEANNE MEYER

There is a moment in our healing journey when our denial crumbles; we realize our experience and it'...
JEANNE MCELVANEY

And the Sunday flea market on the green in High Falls, that's on our property, too.
JEANNE BOLLENDORF

The 2006 Godspeed Sail is designed to be a dynamic, memorable event. It presents numerous opportunit...
JEANNE ZEIDLER

A long time ago in a kingdom by the sea there lived a princess as tall and bright as a sunflower.
JEANNE DESY

New Orleans is so physically vulnerable, and there have been attempts to mitigate that, but the vuln...
JEANNE HURLBERT

If you lend out your car ? you have given someone permission to drive and they get into an accident ...
JEANNE SALVATORE

The spirit of exploration that brought European settlers to the Americas lives on today through the ...
JEANNE ZEIDLER

(Jade) was diagnosed with severe mold induced asthma.
JEANNE BLACK

Well, we think the convention is a great opportunity for people to learn more about John Kerry and J...
JEANNE SHAHEEN

[Jeanne Shaheen, governor 1997-2003, noted,] Anyone who has spent time in New Hampshire has an emoti...
JEANNE SHAHEEN

You can't replace these guys. You can't overstate what they mean to the party, politically and polic...
JEANNE SHAHEEN

There is no better way to honor Dr. King than to spend Monday giving back to our communities in his ...
JEANNE SHAHEEN

And, you know, we're looking at some broad themes for the convention, stronger at home, respected in...
JEANNE SHAHEEN

We should be working together with Iowa as we have in the past to protect the status and relevance o...
JEANNE SHAHEEN

It wasn't a rock. It was a dog's rubber bone, left behind months ago to be buried first under autumn...
JEANNE BIRDSALL

What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. A...
JEANNE DUPRAU

How can we have an educated electorate if people aren't reading. This is a drive to get literature b...
JEANNE JOHNSON

Taking heed, she ran, her soul was on fire...all those years of preparing...without fear, she moves ...
JEANNE YOUNG

Fright or flight...she whispers...tears stain her collage of emotions...as she soars off into the ni...
JEANNE YOUNG

Ignorance is learned and innocence is lost, but...not forgotten.
JEANNE YOUNG

Blind, unconditional faith in the impossible keeps one standing still in the raw emotions of compass...
JEANNE YOUNG

As she sits in isolation, pondering her very existence, distant yet deliberate feelings of alienatio...
JEANNE YOUNG

It is the human’s innate emotion, one of desire, that has always and will continue to stifle our s...
JEANNE YOUNG

We have people interested in fiber arts, quilting, sculpture -- any of the visual arts in quite a va...
JEANNE BOARD

When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself ...
JEANNE MOREAU

Donit kill her now, just when we've gone to all that trouble to rescue her," said Jeffrey.
JEANNE BIRDSALL

Why, if its going to be allright, do we see it getting worse every day?
JEANNE DUPRAU

Woe is me, she cries out, a time of tribulation hangs over head like a dark cloud...yet through inte...
JEANNE YOUNG

To learn the truth of all LIFE, the human must stop being in awe of their own ego...it is foolish fo...
JEANNE YOUNG

When humans disregard or dismiss the lives of animals as being less important than their own, then t...
JEANNE YOUNG

The change in seasons leaves me feeling bittersweet emotions.
JEANNE YOUNG

The solipsism of the oh so egotistical human...when it comes to animals...it's disgusting!
JEANNE YOUNG

Voyaging into the unfading, eternal sea of atoms...delving deeply...she journeyed inward to awaken h...
JEANNE YOUNG

You don't want a situation where you have to prove that you had a $10,000 Barbie doll collection aft...
JEANNE SALVATORE

They have oils and brushes and supplies. I'm sure if they do a watercolor course they would have sup...
JEANNE BOARD

I think she's a leader, and has made her mark for women and social change.
JEANNE MIGNON

Finally, after a lot of searching and digging, it was simply the love of family that gave me a road ...
JEANNE TRIPPLEHORN

Troubles always seemed more severe after the sun went down. Even irrational worries and fears could ...
JEANNE STEPHENS

During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demon...
JEANNE MOREAU

A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening...
JEANNE DUPRAU

In the late nineteenth century women lodgers, alone in the city, epitomized the purity of endangered...
JEANNE MEYEROWITZ

How can you stand to do it? The poor little mouse!"

Grover shrugged. "It's nature," he sa...
JEANNE DUPRAU

I could have been killed, and their response is to film me?...In that moment, the myth that every ti...
JEANNE RYAN

It smells of political pandering. We have no problem with strong border protections, but anyone who ...
JEANNE BUTTERFIELD

Low-wage jobs have gone offshore. We need to innovate to stay competitive.
JEANNE SHAHEEN

Twins have a special bond. They feel safer with each other than with their peers.
JEANNE PHILLIPS

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.
JEANNE CALMENT

He was willing to take his skills and fight for the little guy, and I don't think that hurt him when...
JEANNE MIGNON

I've lived in the west county for 13 years and we have typically not gotten anything that's high-end...
JEANNE MIGNON

The press seems to love pitting women against each other.
JEANNE TRIPPLEHORN

I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint t...
JEANNE MOREAU

There are many ways to become mistress (or master) of one's fate after a betrayal, but they all have...
JEANNE SAFER

Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when someth...
JEANNE DUPRAU

There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the i...
JEANNE SHAHEEN

I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it.
JEANNE CALMENT

Can't it be stopped?" said Lina. She shifted around under her blanket, trying to find a place to sit...
JEANNE DUPRAU

Survivors of abuse show us the strength of their personal spirit every time they smile.
JEANNE MCELVANEY

You can recognize survivors of abuse by their courage. When silence is so very inviting, they step f...
JEANNE MCELVANEY

And I’ve got admirers. Okay, probably drunken geeks with nothing better to do than scroll through ...
JEANNE RYAN

I need to use my mind in a way that slows the out-of-control beating in my chest. The darkness aroun...
JEANNE RYAN

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.
JEANNE MOREAU

Two Hot Chicks Make Five Hot Chicken Dishes
JEANNE LEWIS

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and ...
JEANNE MOREAU

I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.
JEANNE CALMENT

Women were once considered chattel, and slavery was regarded as sanctioned in the Bible. However, we...
JEANNE PHILLIPS

Mere children, ha!" said Jane. "I say we tie up the knave and then discuss his fate."
Since eve...
JEANNE BIRDSALL

The referee told me this league has never had a brawl of that magnitude," said Mr. Penderwick after ...
JEANNE BIRDSALL

When we learn to recognize the unique quality of Memory-Dreams, we are empowered. The abused child w...
JEANNE MCELVANEY

As we grow older, the riveting, dis-empowering feelings that grabbed us during moments of our abuse ...
JEANNE MCELVANEY

Ndamukong started out playing soccer, like his sister before him. She excelled at it, played for Mississippi State, made the Cameroon national team.

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