Deborah Tannen Quotes
The death of compromise has become a threat to our nation as we confront crucial issues such as the debt ceiling and that most basic of legislative responsibilities: a federal budget. At stake is the very meaning of what had once seemed unshakable: 'the full faith and credit' of the U.S. government.
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One of the most effective tools in Brazil's efforts to eradicate slavery is a register compiled by the government that lists individuals and businesses found using slave labor. Those on the 'dirty list,' as the register is known, are fined and remain on it for a minimum of two years during which they cannot access public funds.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
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You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.
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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. I think that's when I really thought about how I wanted to do something else and get away from all that.
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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.
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First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.
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It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
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That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.
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The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
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Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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The death of compromise has become a threat to our nation as we confront crucial issues such as the debt ceiling and that most basic of legislative responsibilities: a federal budget. At stake is the very meaning of what had once seemed unshakable: 'the full faith and credit' of the U.S. government.
