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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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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I found the most convincing part to be the working stiffs, the guys who have a modest home and kids who go to public schools. They make $75,000 to $100,000 a year. That's not much to live on. I don't have to tell you that.
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You [the Gallaudet students have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes.
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It comes down to what your priorities are, and if public education is about kids, then every decision we make should be focused on the question of 'Is this good for a child?' And that should be the driving focus and the priority when we decide what our policies should be and what our laws should be.
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I played college basketball. When I first decided I was going to play football, there were a lot of people telling me that I wasn't going to make it.
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Everybody has their demons; everyone has their challenges.
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It's easy to walk away from risk, and you don't actually have to face it. Success is based upon overcoming the inherent risk you can't manage your way out of.
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I was Google's first woman engineer.
