Marissa Mayer Quotes
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it... But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
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One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.
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The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much of the music I have loved can triumph.
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Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
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Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.
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I just want a big HBO special or a network or somebody willing to get behind my work and promote it. The most frustrating thing for me is to have this successful act that resonates across the country, and the network guys just don't get it. Everyone sees it except them. I want to leave a mark.
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I learned American Sign Language in college and seemed to pick it up rather quickly. I really love to sign and wish that I had more friends to sign with.
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Anybody can have this body if you do enough sit-ups and you just make a decision that 'Every day, I'm going to work out.' There are some days that I just don't feel like doing it, and I don't. But more often than not I get up and I get on the treadmill that I want to shoot and just do it. The first 20 minutes are the hardest.
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At the earliest ending of winter, In March, a scrawny cry from outside Seemed like a sound in his mind. He knew that he heard it, A bird's cry, at daylight or before, In the early March wind.
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Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.
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...We are in one world. We are one nation. And therefore, what’s common in between us, what should be common among us, is love and peace.
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We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion - a lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism or for a heavy package of despair, or even a quivering portion of hysteria. Opinions can be picked up cheap in the market place while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply.
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Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check.
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Everyone has dated or been with a person who is obsessed with their work, and it's immensely frustrating.
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We have a lot of choice about whether to interpret something as adversity or as opportunity. I see in myself the tendency at times to make situations worse than they have to be because of my catastrophic interpretation.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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Don't let your fear paralyze you. Prepare yourself not only technically, but also emotionally.
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I don't feel overwhelmed with information. I really like it.
