Marissa Mayer Quotes
I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.
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My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.
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I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.
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We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.
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I was raised Catholic.
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Occasionally, especially on video games and with a lot of the fighting stuff, to get what you feel is the proper sound, you have to imitate what you're doing, and occasionally I've gotten carried away and kicked over mic stands or punched things.
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There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.
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I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.
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I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.
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I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.
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Facebook is a platform inside a platform.
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Never doubt that one person can make a difference.
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What I have learned is that designers are willing to tell the world that they are here to empower women from all different backgrounds and different walks of life.
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I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.
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I'm very physical. When I'm writing, I'm playing all the parts; I'm saying the lines out loud, and if I get excited about something - which doesn't happen very often when I'm writing, but it's the greatest feeling when it does - I'll be out of the chair and walking around, and if I'm at home, I'll find myself two blocks from my house.
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.
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Badass is a juvenile aspiration.
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What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent.
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Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.
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I want to touch people's hearts, to get right down to their souls.
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The new Late Antiquity is in part a deliberate corrective to a previous bias, which assumed that the entire Roman world declined in the fifth century, because this is what happened in the West. Relocating the centre of the world in the fourth to eighth centuries to Egypt, the Levant, and Persia is a stimulating challenge to our mental framework and cultural expectations.
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I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.
