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.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.
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I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
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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.
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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.
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When Joy Division started, I was scared to death of having to get a normal day job.
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In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life.
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The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
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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.
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When mothers earn their fair share, young children have greater access to quality health care, educational opportunities, and safe communities. By ending the wage gap, we will help ensure that every child can achieve his or her God-given potential.
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I had bags of energy as a kid.
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Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.
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I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel that later became 'A Life Apart.'
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Going to war is a serious matter. And it should be done very carefully and deliberately with clear national interests at stake before the United States or our Commander-in-Chief acts.
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up mountains.
