Marissa Mayer Quotes
It was the height of the first boom, so it was 1999. It was a good year to be a graduate in computer science.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo.
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Around-the-clock support is crucial for children receiving palliative care. They and their families often need help every hour of every day, both in hospices and at home.
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I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The amount of wealth tends to be less.
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I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
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Look at me and tell me if I don't have Brazil in every curve of my body.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
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'Librarians' is surprisingly touching in a lot of ways where it's not expected.
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I don't care if it's a Cole Porter song, or George Gershwin, or Lennon/McCartney, or Elton John, or you know, whoever, Bob Dylan. Great songs are great songs, and they stand the test of time, and they can be interpreted and recorded with many points of view, but yet still retain the essence of what makes them good songs.
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It was the height of the first boom, so it was 1999. It was a good year to be a graduate in computer science.
