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Everyone is trying to impress everyone else, trying to make themselves out to be smarter or more confident than they actually are.


Marissa Meyer

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GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS Everyone is trying to make the team. While we're here, everyone is doing their best.
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J.J. MCAVOY The only thing I ever failed at was, trying to be normal like everyone else.
SUSIE L HILL That's the key to our success. Everyone just goes out and plays their role. No one is trying to do i...
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CALVIN JOHNSON We're like everyone else. We're trying to gather information, but information is hard to come by.
GREG WILKINSON I'm always exploring other people: trying to figure out myself, trying to figure out everyone.
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HENRY J. KAISER The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make ...
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ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
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ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
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ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Impossible is my specialty."

-Marissa Meyer, Heartless
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ST. FRANCIS DE SALES Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more imp...
SALMA HAYEK I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea...
RICHARD YATES Oh... I just leave it...

...

Words have as much weight as trying to jump from ...
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FéLIX J. PALMA We are trying to sustain or make more improvement.
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KEVIN DEYOUNG I am not trying to be better than anyone else, I am only trying to be better than myself.
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LIZ PARRISH It's easier to be who you want to be when you aren't trying to be who everyone thinks you are
ASHLEY POSTON Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
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COLE SWINDELL You know all those bad girls who take off their selendang and put round their neck like fashion-show...
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THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
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MARISSA MEYER Impossible is my specialty."

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MARISSA MEYER Off with his head
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‘How different everything could have been, if yo...
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"Don't we all?" said Iko.
MARISSA MEYER Crazy loves company, Sir Clay.
MARISSA MEYER It's a terrible shame he's a Renegade, isn't it? Otherwise, you could have asked him to stay for din...
MARISSA MEYER Scarlet and Wolf are saying gushy things in the galley," Iko said. "Normally I like gushy things, bu...
MARISSA MEYER Hey, I’m not judging. I’m familiar with IT-relations. Just wait until you meet our spaceship. Sh...
MARISSA MEYER An animal?" Thorne said, and she realized he'd been waiting for her to further explain what she was ...
MARISSA MEYER A kiss from the Captain would probably melt my central processor.”
Thorne winked at her. “...
MARISSA MEYER Cress?"
"It's beautiful out there."
A hesitation, before, "Could you be more specific?" MARISSA MEYER And the moral of that is "Once a goldfish, forever a goldfish.
MARISSA MEYER Levana knew a great deal about beauty, just as she knew a great deal about ugliness.
MARISSA MEYER You can help me pick out a tiara when we’re done saving the world.
MARISSA MEYER I guess it’s time.”
While Cress’s thoughts continued to churn through the horrible things...
MARISSA MEYER You're extra beautiful when you talk about baking. You know you're good at it, and that knowledge li...
MARISSA MEYER Over everything, I choose you.
MARISSA MEYER It is a dangerous thing to unbelieve something only because it frightens you.” Cath
MARISSA MEYER I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you...
MARISSA MEYER Her mind emptied of everything but the gusting wind and how fragile Wolf looked in that heartbeat, l...
MARISSA MEYER Wow, when you research, you really research, don't you?
MARISSA MEYER Let's pick it up," the man behind her said. "How many more of the tranquilizers do you have?"
"...
MARISSA MEYER Come here, baby sister," she whispered, and despite the terror twisting inside Levana's stomach, her...
MARISSA MEYER Maybe she truly was hideous. But so long as she could deceive everyone, what did it matter?
MARISSA MEYER It's just... you never show your face, when they record you. Rumors are starting, you know. People t...
MARISSA MEYER I think that burnout happens because of resentment. That notion that, 'Wow, I worked 100 hours l...
MARISSA MAYER When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glass...
MARISSA MAYER I took a computer-science course to fill a prerequisite at Stanford, and I realized that every day w...
MARISSA MAYER Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing ...
MARISSA MAYER I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywher...
MARISSA MAYER You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.
MARISSA MAYER