Marissa Mayer Quotes
I think that burnout happens because of resentment. That notion that, 'Wow, I worked 100 hours last week, and I couldn't even have this thing that I really wanted.'
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.
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I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
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I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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The U.S. has a proud history of cleaning up our air through technological innovation. We did it with leaded gas, acid rain and countless other pollutants, and we can do it with carbon pollution, too.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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The more people learn about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the worse it looks.
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I do not need a trophy to tell myself that I am the best.
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.
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Avarice is a deadly sin.
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One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store. Brevity is very important. If you're going to be longwinded, it should be for a purpose. Not just because you like your words.
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One of my heroes is a composer named James Bernard, and oh my God... I can still listen to his music today and be stirred and moved by it. But I think that you fall in love with... Well, again, when you're young, it really is more powerful. Much more terrifying.
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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
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The world hasn't noticed, but R&B has shifted. It's changing course.
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When people come up and give me a compliment... I take each remark as if it were a flower. At the end of the day I lift up the bouquet of flowers I have gathered throughout the day and say, 'Here you are, Lord, it is all Yours.'
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My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be.
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I think that burnout happens because of resentment. That notion that, 'Wow, I worked 100 hours last week, and I couldn't even have this thing that I really wanted.'
