Mika Brzezinski Quotes
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Don't make your journey through life harder by placing rules on yourself like, 'I can't get married till I get promoted to your dream job.'
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I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'
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The odds are definitely better on getting the right job than getting a good partner for life. Someone who will grow with you. Someone to develop memories with. Someone who was there in the beginning. Someone who will be there at the end.
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The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my familys relationship with each other.
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I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challenge of maintaining an overnight shift at CBS, a marriage, and two in diapers made the symptoms worse and everyone in the house paid the price.
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Everyday I find myself reminding women around me to know their value. I also have to remind myself.
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On 'Morning Joe' I can say what I think, be my sometimes unorthodox self, have fun, yet be serious as well.
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Why don't these companies making big profits just pay people better than $14 an hour? It's kind of simple. When you're making record profits, why not? I don't get it.
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I've worked with Ed Bradley, Dan Rather and lots of different local news anchors.
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My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up mountains.
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Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.
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Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if youve truly lived through it.
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If my mother were running for president and talked about a Muslim ban, I'd call her a bigot. If my mother claimed she didn't know who David Duke was when I knew she did, I'd say that's disqualifying. If my mother called an Indiana judge a Mexican, I would say that's a bigoted remark.
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I absolutely tore George W. Bush to shreds, despite the fact I knew the guy personally and I actually campaigned for him in 2000. It's our job to just call it like we see it whether these people are our friends or not.
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We have an almost desperate need for more women to run for office and for more women to really gut it out after they have kids and stay in their jobs and get to high positions in companies. We need women at the top more than ever. We need women's voices there because they are very different than men's voices and they bring a very valuable and necessary point of view to the table.
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Women play into each other's weaknesses.
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I have mugs of hot water every morning because the studio is cold, and also because it makes my throat sound clearer.
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Finding a job is hard enough, but have you ever considered the odds and the challenges of finding a good man?
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If we've seen one thing from Donald Trump, it's that he says one thing one day, and another thing another.
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I try my best to be extremely disciplined about my diet.
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We have to stop judging people who are struggling with their weight.
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I am a marathon worker and marathon mother. I'll spend three or four days completely swallowed up by work. And if I make it home in time to say good night, I may have one good hour with the girls, maybe a brief family dinner or a family walk with the dog, and then it is back on the computer to prepare for tomorrow's shows.
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We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don't like us. Women tend to worry about popularity; it doesn't matter if they like you. They need to respect you. They need to show that respect for you in your pay check. And that needs to be okay.
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If we can't quantify and communicate our value with confidence, the achievements of the tremendous women before us will have all been for nothing.