Marissa Mayer Quotes

You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.

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• When I lived in Greece and off the coast of Italy, I enjoyed a branzino dish so much that I created my own version.

  

  Camila Alves
  • My Own
  • Italy
  • Greece

• I am happy with my form; I just need to score a couple of goals. I want the ball. I want to create something.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Happy
  • Couple
  • Goals

• As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • World
  • Live
  • Words

• I think we live in a culture that relentlessly pursues comfort. Ease is related to disease. We shouldn't always be fleeing hardship. Hardship also brings people together. We should welcome it.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • Live
  • Together

• I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • People
  • Love
  • Faith

• I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • People
  • Women
  • Myself

• I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • People
  • Long
  • Power

• The fans had become used to looking toward the scoreboard whenever a gymnast stuck a landing. You could tell they were thinking, 'Was that good enough? Would the numbers read 10.00?' The athlete was looking, too.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Athlete

• The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • High
  • Age
  • New

• Irreverence not only shows disrespect to Deity but also makes it hard for the Spirit to teach us the things we need to know.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Know
  • Teach
  • Disrespect

• While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Real
  • Business
  • Justice

• Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Stories
  • Desires
  • Fears

• I am just an ordinary Catholic.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Catholic

• You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • You
  • Die
  • Sister

• Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People
  • School
  • Society

• Kochi, formerly called Cochin, is a former European settlement with a large Christian population and a seafaring heritage. It is a town of enormous charm that reminds some visitors of the Caribbean more than India.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Christian
  • India
  • Heritage

• Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • May
  • You
  • Social

• I wholeheartedly rejected anything remotely feminine but was not enthusiastic about anything masculine, either. I did not want to cook and have babies, and I did not want to be an engineer or a baseball player or a soldier or a politician or any of the myriad careers open mostly or solely to men. I wanted to be a poet.

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Men
  • Want
  • Player

• Only the artists interest me whose hearts beat in unison with the poignant misery of the world. If you have not felt that, you have not lived. Pity is essential.

  

  Elizabeth Bibesco
  • World

• Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.

  

  Christopher Love
  • God

• There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what's really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what's really going on.

  

  David Bowie
  • Sometimes
  • Artist
  • Strange

• Africa, amongst the continents, will teach it to you: that God and the Devil are one, the majesty coeternal, not two uncreated but one uncreated, and the Natives neither confounded the persons nor divided the substance.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • God
  • Devil

• If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai Hind!' also signalled its end in 1947.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee

• You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.

  

  Marissa Mayer