Mika Brzezinski (Mika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski Scarborough) Quotes

Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.

Mika Brzezinski

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• I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Writing
  • You
  • Students

• International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Want
  • Play
  • Lights

• That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Why
  • Team
  • Sports

• You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Up
  • World
  • You

• Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Country
  • Best
  • Like

• Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • You
  • Opportunity
  • Equal

• We rarely grow when we're happy, we grow when we hurt.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Happy
  • Hurt
  • Grow

• Anything's possible in politics.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Politics
  • Possible
  • Anything

• But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Knowledge
  • Change

• Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • War
  • Breed
  • Timidity

• I don't write tracking shots in my screenplays or any camera directions, but I do try to give a sense of how the action is moving.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Action
  • Moving
  • Try

• I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Wonder

• For me, life is about experiencing many new things and working with good people, working on good projects, and in general, just having any kind of job.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I want a girlfriend who eats as much as I do, which is a lot.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Want
  • Girlfriend

• There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Great
  • Write
  • Difficult

• I talk openly about my past and what I've gone through - abuse being something that was very real in my household, and a lot of chaos growing up as a child. I think that I naturally just gravitated towards music that I could really feel on a deep level - and that meant sadness. I was able to connect with that at a really young age.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Up
  • Music
  • Thinking

• Success depended once again on speed and deception, qualities that residents of the Shenandoah Valley were beginning to associate with Thomas Jackson.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Success
  • Beginning
  • Qualities

• We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Mean
  • Used
  • Halloween

• It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty, death, and disease as a part of 'God’s Plan' or the greater good — and clinging to ancient texts that preach ill-concealed bigotry and sexism. Instead, we should find ways to make this life happy and satisfying, without regard to the unknowable nature of an afterlife.

  

  David G. McAfee
  • Nature
  • Opinion
  • Ancient

• Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • History
  • Future
  • Science

• There's always been a hunger in me not necessarily to be successful, but to be an icon.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Me
  • Successful
  • Hunger

• You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Audience
  • Hours
  • Nervous

• We have a few artists that seem to sell enough to pay back what it costs to make a record.

  

  Alan Sparhawk
  • Record
  • Artists
  • Pay

• Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.

  

  Mika Brzezinski
  • Successful
  • Shows
  • Hours