Marissa Mayer Quotes
When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
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The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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I think it is important to let your kids have independence and ownership. Let your kids do what they have a passion for.
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In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.
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What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.
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Ideas are never scarce; it is only one's panic sense of limitation that blocks the way.
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Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie.
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An attractive lie is always going to be more popular than a hard truth. (No. 11, p. 27)
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When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.
