Deborah Tannen Quotes
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Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.
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Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.
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I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.
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I want nothing to do with O.J. Simpson. I want that name so far behind me, I want it out of my life.
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The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.
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You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
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There are also scientific problems with the concept that each of the creation days was a long period of time.
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I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
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The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.
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The ledger, the distributed database - it's called a Blockchain - is held in the cloud by all the parties involved. It can't be broken by any of them. It's cryptographically too strong. You would have to compromise the entire network to take over Bitcoin.
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We just hide from the people we love. Sad, isn't it?
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I'm not incapable of going through things.
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The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous and unforgivable.
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The more comfortable you are, and the more you can relax, the more truthful your performance is.
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Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.
