Marissa Mayer Quotes
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.
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I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
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I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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The caricature of me in 1986 was not correct. I do not harbor the kind of animosity and race-based discrimination ideas that I was accused of. I did not.
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The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks.
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I had a nanny growing up in Morocco, and my parents encouraged me to put myself in her shoes sometimes.
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Well, I have one of the best jobs in the world.
