"My salary situation at 'Morning Joe' wasn't right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I'd made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking."

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Source : "Mika Brzezinski Speaks: How Getting Fired Saved My Career". Interview with Anna Maltby, www.marieclaire.com. January 28, 2011.

Mika Brzezinski

#Morning Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Asking Quotes

“Dissonance between family and school, therefore, is not only inevitable in a changing society; it also helps to make children moremalleable and responsive to a changing world. By the same token, one could say that absolute homogeneity between family and school would reflect a static, authoritarian society and discourage creative, adaptive development in children.”

Source : Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (1978). “Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools”, Basic Books (AZ)
“I'm always striving to be a better man to God, a better husband, a better Dad so it's just work, but I'm committed to it.”
“I think we can all agree that sleeping around is a great way to meet people.”
“Whether the proposed constitution is approved or rejected . . . it is a process and a text largely crafted and imposed by U.S. occupation authorities and their Iraqi dependents, and thus lacking in legal or political legitimacy.”
“If you're too busy to meditate twice a day, you're just too busy.”
“Make sure you're doing something that you love, that you're willing to do for the rest of your life. If you're doing it for money, that's the only thing you won't make.”
“I really, really, really, really, really, really, really like girls.”
“Great masters merit emulation, not worship.”

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