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.
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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.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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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.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
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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.
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Our mass movement will shatter this communal, fascist and autocratic center.
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I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it.
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Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.
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What I look for in a role is the physical. But what's the journey emotionally? Can I take this person who is this archetypal tough guy and find the beauty?
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We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh.
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We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
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We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change.
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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.
