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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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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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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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.
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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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I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
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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.
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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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I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.
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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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Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.
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I'm a huge Jon Lovitz fan.
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For any athlete growing up, the Olympics is the one thing you watch with your family, and it's the one thing you dream about. Seeing your country's flag go up as you get a gold medal is the best thing you can achieve.
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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.