Marissa Mayer Quotes
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I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things.
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Heartbreak is hard, but you find more and more things to be grateful for every day.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
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I sing around the house, in the shower.
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A runner needs not just to be skinny but - more specifically - to have skinny calves and ankles, because every extra pound carried on your extremities costs more than a pound carried on your torso. That's why shaving even a few ounces off a pair of running shoes can have a significant effect.
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I'm from Hollywood; I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.
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Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.
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I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.
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I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?'
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As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my God, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'
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I didn't intend to be an actress. It was one of many things I was interested in, and it just took off. I was an actress between the ages of 18 and 22, and it was a wonderful, fun thing to do, but it wasn't what I intended long term. I parked acting a long time ago.
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But I, you know, if I could choose a period to go back to, I think I would like to live through the Blitz. 'Cause you do read so many accounts of people saying they're living their lives at such an intense pitch that it was a completely different way of living.
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Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
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When I was growing up, hand washing was a ritual, but now it's a necessity. A child dies every 15 seconds from preventable causes, which has got to stop.
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We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.
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Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.
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'Returnless risk' is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.
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Gymnastics demands so much of our time. We train all week and travel and compete on weekends. The people you're surrounded by really become your second family, your best friends, your sisters. My coach was like a second mother for me.
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Ziggy, when you go up bring me up and when you go down don't let me down. Stephen, Money can't buy you life.
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I'm left-brain dominant, so anxiety and nervousness don't affect me; most emotions don't.
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Women are women, and so are men, and the delusion that we are spiritually separate from or are about to spiritually separate from the rest of existence is a psychosis that spins us into virulence.
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It's a complicated relationship with the place one grows up in, particularly if it's Northern Ireland.
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I was Google's first woman engineer.
