Marissa Mayer Quotes
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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I read a lot of true crime growing up – 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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It is absolutely okay - actually preferable in some cases - to be weird.
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This / is the use of trampolines / I will remember, the broken sunlight / Coming through the trees in a strange / Land, and lighting up my rising / And falling children, and their friends, / And the apples falling, / The new trees rising.
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The day has gone by when a monk can tear a Hypatia from the pursuit of philosophy and throw her to a rabble of insane monastics to be dragged to a violent death.... Man has made himself a law unto himself, publishing it in his pretended "heavenly" revelations, dogmas, and statutes. Woman is not constructing a law unto herself, and she is putting it forth, not on a pretendedly supernatural, but on a natural basis.
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I can think of only two or three songs out of hundreds I've recorded that I performed as originally written. I like to become intimate with the material and change it to suit me.
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Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mother relationship, but they extend to all people with whom woman comes into contact.
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Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.
