Mary Meeker Quotes
A captivating moment was when I realized that people, including myself, were not saying, 'I just bought an item on eBay.' They were saying, 'I just won an item on eBay.' It was the thrill of the hunt. I bought a car on eBay.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Religion doesn't play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don't think I've ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word 'Jew' or saying it myself.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!
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With the BBC Sound list, it's just humbling even being put aside those other musicians - people like Alicia Kava, who I am a huge fan of.
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I'd rather be No. 2 in Chile and No. 1 in the world.
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My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.
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Who can gauge all the ways in which the Gods who've created you craft your life?
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A captivating moment was when I realized that people, including myself, were not saying, 'I just bought an item on eBay.' They were saying, 'I just won an item on eBay.' It was the thrill of the hunt. I bought a car on eBay.
