Mika Brzezinski (Mika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski Scarborough) Quotes
Everyday I find myself reminding women around me to know their value. I also have to remind myself.
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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Dartmoor proper consists of that upland region of granite, rising to nearly 2,000 feet above the sea, and actually shooting above that height at a few points, which is the nursery of many of the rivers of Devon.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is an irony that destroys its own negation and, hence, returns in the affirmative.
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You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.
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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
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My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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There are a zillion variables to a hamburger. What part of the animal went into it. What coarseness. What temperature.
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I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.
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I didn't really plan on fame. I never really factored that part into my life.
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I have quite a lot of fans in Holland because that is where my mother is from, in fact I have a fan club there, and the fans don't always get the chance to see us drive the cars because getting to races across Europe isn't always possible for them.
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We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
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When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.
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In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
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After President Obama took office, his campaign book 'The Audacity of Hope' receded into his past fast. Its sweet, naive, bipartisan 'let's reason together' passages fell away, too.
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If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.
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I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.
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It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.
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What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?
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We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy 'cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every day and craft services. The hard part is staying fit under those circumstances.
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Everyday I find myself reminding women around me to know their value. I also have to remind myself.
