Mika Brzezinski (Mika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski Scarborough) Quotes

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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• I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Children
  • High

• Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Strange
  • Places
  • Far

• Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Expectations
  • Meet

• To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Fire

• You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Song
  • Perfect

• Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Country
  • American
  • College

• A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. But a lot of it was a lack of technology - bad processes and systems.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Night
  • Weird
  • Books

• My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Time
  • Messages
  • Phone

• I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Know
  • Irish
  • Musicians

• The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Wisdom
  • See
  • Mark

• In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.

  

  Edmund White
  • Truth
  • Matter
  • Contract

• The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• The more a man is trained to 'be a man,' the more he is trained to protect women and children, not hurt women and children. He is trained to volunteer to die before even a stranger is hurt – especially a woman or child.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Children
  • Die

• When Joy Division started, I was scared to death of having to get a normal day job.

  

  Bernard Sumner New Order
  • Job
  • Death
  • Joy

• In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Life
  • Discipline

• The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

  

  Arthur Keith
  • Life

• I understand the power of the Internet, but I can't say that I'm there. I'm old-fashioned and living in a different century. I don't know. I just don't really understand the craze of it.

  

  Ksenia Solo
  • Different
  • Power

• What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.

  

  David Christian
  • History

• We talk of poverty and inequality, but in crafting an economic programme or policy for the future for this country, we must ensure no community, no region should be neglected.

  

  Anwar Ibrahim
  • Country
  • Poverty
  • Inequality

• Something I'm going to try to really instill in my own family is a lot of tradition. And, I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot.

  

  Amy Adams
  • Family

• I want to be a purpose-driven, purpose-led organization, and I want the organization to achieve this aspiration of being the undisputed leader in professional services.

  

  Punit Renjen
  • Purpose
  • Professional
  • Organization

• I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

  

  John Keats
  • Men
  • Die

• My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up mountains.

  

  Mika Brzezinski
  • Family
  • Mountain
  • Active