Marissa Mayer Quotes

To me, speed is really about convenience.

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• It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • May
  • Help
  • Nature

• Most actors can't make any kind of living.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Kind
  • Living
  • Most

• All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

  

  Tacitus
  • Things
  • All Things
  • Rome

• The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • People
  • World
  • Want

• But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Person
  • Theory
  • Him

• I've dated girls that aren't, this is gonna sound so horrible, that aren't super smart, but they still are super confident, and that's more what I've been attracted to is the confidence and the sense of humor.

  

  Parker Young
  • Confidence
  • Smart
  • Humor

• I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Real
  • Want
  • Cool

• If I could change anything, I would definitely have had a father around. My father. I would definitely say it affected me deeply as a young man, coming up. Who doesn't want a father? Those are the beginnings, and those are what can dictate the roads you choose in life, and choosing them well.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Up
  • Father

• Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Country
  • Problems
  • Cutting

• I had a lot of fun creating some restaurants with a casual note to it, such as DBGB, for example, where it was about bangers and beers, being a very casual brasserie with very affordable food but very interesting homemade program.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Fun
  • Interesting
  • Food

• I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my nose and click 'agree.'

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Product
  • Agree
  • Software

• The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Kind
  • Brain
  • Muscle

• I come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values - the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Children
  • Family
  • Love

• The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • People
  • Done
  • Thought

• I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Best
  • Confidence
  • Win

• We flood communities with so many guns that it is easier for a teenager to buy a Glock than get his hands on a computer or even a book.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Book
  • Teenager

• Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Live
  • Art
  • Age

• By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better than Shakespeare, whereas any decent eighteen-year-old student of physics will know more physics than Newton.

  

  C.P. Snow
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Science

• The culture is still there, and people are still doing it. I imagine some people are doing it very well indeed. As for me, it definitely was my native literary culture. Science fiction was where I'm from, but on the way to now, I went through a lot of other territory, and I wasn't really that culturally conventional an SF writer when I started.

  

  William Gibson
  • People
  • Culture
  • Imagine

• It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Woman

• You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Up

• Acceptance is an affirmation that you’re good enough.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Acceptance
  • Affirmation

• To me, speed is really about convenience.

  

  Marissa Mayer