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.
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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.
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International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.
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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.
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
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Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
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Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.
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We rarely grow when we're happy, we grow when we hurt.
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Anything's possible in politics.
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But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I want a girlfriend who eats as much as I do, which is a lot.
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There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
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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.
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Success depended once again on speed and deception, qualities that residents of the Shenandoah Valley were beginning to associate with Thomas Jackson.
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We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
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I'd rather go to the White House Correspondents' dinner than any awards show.
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The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.
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Being self-made means putting yourself in position to help others put themselves in position to be successful.
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I find it really weird that sexuality is still so taboo in films and violence isn't. It really bewilders me.
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The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.
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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.
