Marissa Mayer Quotes

I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.

Marissa Mayer

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• My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Favourite
  • Authors
  • Milan

• I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Help
  • Pretty
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Women
  • Guy
  • Sex

• 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.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• 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.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• I was raised Catholic.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Catholic
  • I Was Raised

• 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.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Fighting
  • Doing
  • Video Games

• There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.

  

  Ted Knight
  • Black
  • You
  • Guard

• 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.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Vision
  • Choice
  • Tradition

• I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Character
  • Theatre
  • Transformation

• The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Animal

• 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.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Different

• Facebook is a platform inside a platform.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Inside
  • Facebook
  • Platform

• Never doubt that one person can make a difference.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Doubt
  • Make A Difference

• 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.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Larry Rivers
  • People
  • Black
  • Saying

• 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.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Writing
  • Home
  • House

• I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Story
  • Working
  • Afraid

• When it comes to search, we're like Switzerland. We can't show bias in search.

  

  Bradley Horowitz
  • Search
  • Switzerland
  • Bias

• For sure, the 'Obamania' that's fast taking hold reflects an incredible thirst for change in global politics and, dare I say, a wave of optimism that things can be different.

  

  Lucy Powell
  • Different

• It's about taking advantage of the opportunities you have right now, and right now we're in a position where you call somebody and they're willing to pick up and take the call because they're a fan, you have to take advantage of that and have a chance to capitalize on your ideas.

  

  Dwyane Wade
  • Up

• I now, more and more, appreciate when I'm in a group of good people and get to work in good movies and projects. I'm wildly grateful and appreciative.

  

  Jeff Goldblum
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I got to know every format of every station and who was on and what time.

  

  Bob Edwards
  • Time

• I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.

  

  Marissa Mayer