Marissa Mayer Quotes
Eric Schmidt from Google is one of my favorite mentors. And Eric would always say this very humbling thing that's really true, which is, he would say, 'Good executives confuse themselves when they convince themselves that they actually do things.'
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
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I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.
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The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation will have to be centrally placed in woman's formation.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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Apparently, the people in the [George W.] Bush administration who wanted to confront me on this could not spell my name correctly. They wanted to send a series of emails thinking that perhaps MSNBC was perhaps favorable to the Bush administration. They thought that they could send me a series of questions or talking points to disprove Joe Wilson with.
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In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.
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Well, first I have to make the team, of course.
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Down through the centuries, the Czech Republic, the territory of the Czech Republic has been a place of cultural exchange.
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Eric Schmidt from Google is one of my favorite mentors. And Eric would always say this very humbling thing that's really true, which is, he would say, 'Good executives confuse themselves when they convince themselves that they actually do things.'
