Mika Brzezinski (Mika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski Scarborough) Quotes
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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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
Harlan Coben
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
Frances Beinecke
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
Mackenzie Rosman
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
Carl Honore
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
Saint Augustine
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
Barry Mann
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
Laura Dekker
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
Harmony Korine
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
Van Wyck Brooks
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
Sam Neill
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We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.
Ferran Adria
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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.
Vikas Swarup
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Our mass movement will shatter this communal, fascist and autocratic center.
Lalu Prasad Yadav
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I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it.
Ziggy Marley
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It is unfortunate that we try to solve the simplest questions cleverly, and therefore make them unusually complicated. We should seek a simple solution.
Anton Chekhov
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With terrorist groups like al Qaeda, you can't learn what you want to learn about their capabilities and their future plans by taking a picture of it, and they've learned not to use the telephone.
Bob Graham
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I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.
Jodie Foster
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Convictions that outcomes are determined by one's own actions can be either demoralizing or heartening, depending on the level of self-judged efficacy. People who regard outcomes as personally determined, but who lack the requisite skills, would experience low self-efficacy and view the activities with a sense of futility.
Albert Bandura
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Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
Yakov Smirnoff
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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.
Mika Brzezinski