Quotes by Jeanne Marie Laskas - Page 2

But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank on the ventilation system. Sometimes it didn't work, and sometimes you couldn't even find the switch.
Jeanne Marie Laskas / Writer
Down And
Flip
Writing
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In the summer of 2007, Roger Goodell, the new NFL commissioner, convened a meeting in Chicago for the first league-wide concussion summit. All thirty-two teams were ordered to send doctors and trainers to the meeting.
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Chicago
Doctors
Nfl
Roger
Summer
Trainers
Commissioner
Meeting
Ordered
Send
Teams
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One thing Jim McGreevey wants the world to know: Leading a double life as a gay man trying to appear straight was easy for him to pull off. He was 'good' at it. Not only that - it helped him become a better politician.
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Life Good Better
Life Good Man
Appear
Double
Jim
Pull
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I was suppose to write a book about being a mom, to organize my thoughts into chapters and figure out a structure to hang them on, to make a lasting point, but somehow I decided to go ahead and become a mother instead.
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Mom
Book
Mother
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In 2003, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and a year later, a national ethics committee in France, said that face transplantation would be going too far. The risk of complication would far outweigh the benefits.
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Complication
Ethics
France
Royal
Committee
Outweigh
Year Later
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Football is in a guy's DNA. A primal thing. You should play it so you can talk about the glory days when you get older and drink Bud with the guys from the office. Get it done when you're young, while you have the chance.
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Bud
Dna
Glory
Office
Primal
Older
Guys
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Mike Webster's death was significant. Iron Mike. The best center in the NFL. Nine-time Pro Bowler. Hall of Famer. Four Super Bowl rings. He had played in more games - 220 of them - than any other player in Steelers history.
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Iron
Mike
Nfl
Rings
Significant
Super Bowl
Bowl
Center
Hall
Pro
Webster
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The LeBron 11, for $200, has hyperposite construction - a combination of Foamposite material and performance synthetics - and a new layer of Lunarlon cushioning; and anyway, Nike generates about $300 million off the sneakers.
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Nike
Combination
Construction
Sneakers
Anyway
Lebron
Layer
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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.
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County
Football
Football Player
Gray
Mike
Office
Saturday
September
Steel
Assignment
Perform
Foggy
Professional Football
Webster
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Mike Webster lost all his money or, maybe, gave it away. He forgot. A lot of lawsuits. Mike Webster forgot how to eat, too. Soon, Mike Webster was homeless, living in a truck, one of its windows replaced with a garbage bag and tape.
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Garbage
Homeless
Mike
Replaced
Tape
Truck
Bag
Forgot
Lawsuits
Webster
Windows
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You plant a garden one flower at a time. ... You write a book one word at a time, clean a closet one shelf at a time, run a marathon one step at a time. If you feel defeated by some large task, get your spade and dig the first hole.
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Running
Determination
Perseverance
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In the Dobbsian view of America, the mainstream media isn't evil because it's liberal but because it's lazy. And Washington is utterly corrupt, has sold out, Democrats and Republicans alike. And corporate America is an insatiable pig.
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Corporate
Corporate America
Insatiable
Lazy
Mainstream
Mainstream Media
Alike
Democrats
Democrats And Republicans
Republicans
Liberal
Pig
Sold
Utterly
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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.
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Losing
Nuisance
Pool
Reputation
Seagull
Away
Backyard
Often
Fight
Each
Hamburger
Her
Lady
Scraps
Soon
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Buzz was, of course, the second man to walk on the moon. Buzz made a rap video, 'Rocket Experience,' with Snoop Dogg. He did the cha-cha and the fox-trot and was eliminated in the second round of season ten of 'Dancing with the Stars'.
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Buzz
Dancing With The Stars
Moon
Eliminated
Round
Rocket
Snoop Dogg
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'Bad Boys', which Bay made when he was just twenty-eight, having never made a movie before, having done a string of commercials and music videos with artists ranging from Donny Osmond to Meat Loaf, grossed more than $140 million worldwide.
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Meat
Bay
Commercials
Loaf
Music Videos
String
Worldwide
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Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. I think great things can come out of solitude, out of going to a place where all is quiet except the beating of your heart.
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Being Alone
Heart
Thinking
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People have known for thousands of years that oil was abundant on Alaska's North Slope, a vast tundra, flat and treeless, on and on and on, from the foothills of the Brooks Mountain Range to the Arctic Ocean, an endless, unchanging landscape bigger than Idaho.
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Ocean
Alaska
Arctic
Brooks
Idaho
Landscape
Mountain
Range
Unchanging
Abundant
Vast
Slope
Thousands Of Years
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Bob Dole. He's like the neighbors' Labrador retriever your dad used to curse for all that barking, all that darn digging in your mom's tulip bed, and now look, you live next door to a godforsaken pack of teeth-baring rabid Pomeranians, and, good golly, Bob Dole!
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Dad
Mom
Bed
Bob
Curse
Digging
Next
Used
Mom Good Dad
Barking
Good Mom Dad
Darn
Dole
Door
Good Dad Mom
Neighbors
Next Door
Pack
Rabid
Tulip
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In the early 16th century the Italian physician Jacopo Berengario da Carpi, a pioneer in the science of anatomy, came up with the idea that perhaps 'brain commotion' was caused by the thrust of the soft structure of the brain against the solid case of the skull.
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Anatomy
Italian
Structure
Thrust
Caused
Solid
Physician
Pioneer
Skull
Soft
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The Gun Control Act of 1968 was an attempt to impose order. It set up the Federal Firearms License (FFL) system; gun stores would have to become licensed, and they would have to follow certain rules. Felons, illegal immigrants, and crazy people would be prohibited from buying guns.
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Buying
Crazy People
Firearms
Gun
Gun Control
Illegal
Illegal Immigrants
Immigrants
License
Stores
Attempt
Guns
Impose
Licensed
Prohibited
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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.
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Chinese
Labor
Melting
Melting Pot
American Way
Sixth
Grade
Irish
Italians
Jews
Poles
Slaves
Studies
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Contrary to popular mythology, not all NFL cheerleaders are bimbos or strippers or bored pretty girls looking to get rich. The Ben-Gals offer proof. Neither a bimbo nor a stripper nor a bored pretty girl would survive the rigorous life of a Ben-Gal. The Ben-Gals all have jobs or school or both.
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Bored
Contrary
Mythology
Nfl
Pretty Girl
Proof
Bimbo
Cheerleaders
Rigorous
Survive
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I wanted to go to a place where I could think, really sink into my own imagination, or ride it, or drift along it, as in a balloon. The kind of place that probably all writers crave. The kind of place where the outside world is still and quiet and you get a chance to listen, to peer, to go inward
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Imagination
Balloons
Thinking
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Getting Richard Norris his new face wasn't easy. For starters, doctors needed a donor who wasn't just a favorable blood match but also had the proper skeletal features and skin color - they calculated only a 14 percent chance they'd find one. Then there was the epic surgery that took a team of 150 people.
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Doctors
Epic
Features
Skin Color
Starters
Surgery
Calculated
Donor
Favorable
Richard
Match
Proper
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It's the subconcussive hits, the constant bam, bam, bam that linemen like Suh give and receive. Those are the hits scientists say cause the lasting damage to the brain, the kind of injuries that made guys like Mike Webster, Terry Long, and so many others go crazy. The subconcussive hits - every single play.
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Brain
Constant
Damage
Lasting
Mike
Single
Cause
Guys
Hits
Injuries
Receive
Scientists
Terry
Webster
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If chronic bashing of the head could destroy a boxer's brain, couldn't it also destroy a football player's brain? Surely someone in the history of football had thought to look for dementia pugilistica. Unlike boxers, football players wear helmets, but a helmet can't fully protect the head from damaging impact.
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Boxers
Dementia
Helmet
Boxer
Chronic
Damaging
Destroy
Football Players
Unlike
Surely
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There's no telling how many guns we have in America - and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to its owner. The only place the police can turn for help is a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia, where, thanks to the gun lobby, computers are illegal and detective work is absurdly antiquated.
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Computers
Agency
Crime
Gun
Illegal
Thanks
Virginia
West Virginia
Absurdly
Antiquated
Guns
Connect
Cops
Detective
Gets
Owner
Lobby
Telling
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People assume NFL cheerleaders are within some vague sniffing distance of the good life, but a Ben-Gal is paid seventy-five bucks per game. That is correct: seventy-five bucks for each of ten home games. The grand cash total per season does not keep most of them flush in hair spray, let alone gas money to and from practice.
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Bucks
Cash
Distance
Gas
Good Life
Nfl
Spray
Life Alone Good
Assume
Cheerleaders
Correct
Flush
Grand
Per
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When he emerged Lou Dobbs the populist, he was so hard to peg. A mishmash of contradictions: anti-outsourcing, anti-globalization, pro-international-trade, pro-free-enterprise, anti-corporatism, pro-choice, pro-Second Amendment, pro-gay-marriage, pro-gays-serving-openly-in-the-military, pro-military, anti-war-in-Iraq-and-Afghanistan.
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Peg
Populist
Amendment
Contradictions
Emerged
Pro-Choice
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For centuries, native Eskimos cut blocks of oil-soaked tundra from natural seeps to use as fuel. In the 1920s, explorers arrived and began poking holes. In 1968, they discovered Prudhoe Bay State No. 1, the largest oil field in North America and one of the largest in the world, and a year later the adjacent Kuparuk field, the second-largest.
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Explorers
Fuel
Holes
Native
North America
Oil
Bay
Blocks
Centuries
Largest
Poking
Year Later
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This is one of the take-home messages for me: we just walk around with this narrative in America that everybody wants to be rich and famous. That that’s why people do what they do. And you know, all through these pages you learn over and over again no, actually not even NFL cheerleaders are doing it for fame and fortune. There’s another motivation going on that is so pure and human. That to me was an eye-opener in a really wonderful way.
Jeanne Marie Laskas / Writer
Home
Eye
Motivation
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