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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I think it's absolutely possible for any woman to use the moves I do with Lady Gaga. Just put on her 'Born This Way' video or turn on one of her songs, spend 20 minutes and get a routine down just by watching our choreography. You'll start to see a difference in your abs, legs and butt. Anyone can get great results from this.
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Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.
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Perhaps some of the appeal of the dangerous-but-yummy paranormal anti-hero lies in his scorn for societal expectations. Yes, women have come a long way, but there are still some cultural stigmas more associated with women than men.
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I have a bit of a lava lamp fetish. They are kind of hideous, but there is something so therapeutic about them.
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I rocked the cradle of love.
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I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.
