Mika Brzezinski (Mika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski Scarborough) Quotes

My salary situation at 'Morning Joe' wasn't right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I'd made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking.

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• I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Good
  • Church
  • Myself

• Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • You
  • Everything
  • Director

• I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Know
  • Lady
  • Seen

• It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Good
  • Live
  • Play

• The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Long
  • Opportunity
  • Care

• Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!

  

  Beah Richards
  • Winning
  • Competition
  • Losing

• Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Power
  • End
  • Globalization

• The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that's right and proper.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • American
  • Style
  • Rock

• I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Play
  • Tennis
  • Used

• Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this - that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art. For there are greater things than the object. The greatest thing is the human mind.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Hate

• 'We're not outside the world, yoz. You know? We are the world. We're its language. So we live and it lives. You see?'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • Live

• Human beings can imagine situations which are different from those in front of their eyes... because they make and hold in their minds images for absent things.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Different
  • Eyes

• I love my profession. I would never stop. Relax? I relax when I work. It's my life.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Life
  • Work
  • Stop

• The ancient owls' nest must have burned.Hastily, all alone,a glistening armadillo left the scene,rose-flecked, head down, tail down

  

  Elizabeth Bishop
  • Alone
  • Rose

• Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful to see the mind at work in such an intense manner, but, for me, it was still too far removed from my own issues.

  

  Cornel West
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Interesting

• Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).

  

  Frederik Pohl
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Science

• My kids and I are spending time together. And we're enjoying that. Family is important; I was gone a lot in the 20 years of public service.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • Time
  • Important
  • Family

• Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Happy
  • Alone
  • Information

• Today - and it's happening very rapidly - money, wealth, position, birth are of no importance at all. The thing that is important is the individual you are.

  

  Emilio Pucci
  • Important
  • Money
  • Today

• The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Team
  • Boss
  • Speed

• We make two mistakes about the ancient world. One is to assume they were better than us - that, for instance, the ancient Olympics didn't involve money-making. The opposite mistake, and just as common, is to think our Olympics are much more civilised than ancient sporting competitions. Neither is true.

  

  Mary Beard
  • World
  • Money
  • True

• I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mind
  • Loved
  • Kid

• I think the president should be accessible, should answer questions that aren't pre-screened, but I think there should be a little bit of dignity to the presidency.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Think
  • Questions
  • Dignity

• My salary situation at 'Morning Joe' wasn't right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I'd made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking.

  

  Mika Brzezinski
  • Morning
  • Mistake
  • Situation