Marissa Mayer Quotes
You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.
Marissa Mayer
Quotes to Explore
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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For the first time in six or seven thousand years, many people of goodwill find themselves confused about art. They want to enjoy it because enjoying art is something they expect of themselves as civilized persons, but they're unsure how to do so. They aren't even sure which of the visible objects are art and which are furniture, clothes, hors d'oeuvres, or construction rubble, and whether a pile of dead and decomposing rats is deliberate art or just another pile of decomposing rats.
Barbara Holland
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For casual wear, I'm obsessed with Onassis in Soho. Hip-preppy and well priced.
Max von Essen
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If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.
Caroline B. Cooney
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You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.
Marissa Mayer
