Marissa Mayer Quotes
I like to stay in the rhythm of things. My maternity leave will be a few weeks long, and I'll work throughout it.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
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I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.
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I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film is already in profit. It's got a strong content that will reach people's heart.
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If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.
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Elon Musk is talking about silicon nanoparticles pulsing through our veins to make us sort of semi-cyborg computers. But why not take a noninvasive approach? I've been working and trying to think and invent a way to do this for a number of years and finally happened upon it and left Facebook to do it.
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Memo to future presidents: Never stake your entire survival on the painful passing of a bad bill. Never take the country down the road to 'Demon Pass.'
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For good or bad, there is a certain level of generalisation when it comes to my work. I want to break that perception. My decision to direct 'Bombay Talkies' or to present 'The Lunchbox' is an attempt to do that. These are the films that gel well with my sensibility, and it's unfortunate, it's not the perception out there.
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I like to stay in the rhythm of things. My maternity leave will be a few weeks long, and I'll work throughout it.
