Deborah Tannen Quotes
I'm a linguist. I study how people talk to each other and how the ways we talk affect our relationships.
Deborah Tannen
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
Harmony Korine
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
Walter Kirn
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
Larry King
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
Sally Kellerman
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
Rafael dos Anjos
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The darkness is calling. A little danger, a little risk. Feel your heart race. Listen to it. That’s the sound of being alive. It’s your time, Nick. Your one chance to have fun before it’s all stolen by them, the adults, with their cruelty and endless rules, their can’t-do-this, and can’t-do-that’s, their have-tos, and better-dos, their little boxes and cages all designed to break your spirit, to kill your magic.
Brom
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My biggest concern with the whole deal with 'Total Divas' and with WWE - and, you know, they want you to be engaged with social media and all this kind of stuff - I don't want to live my life to entertain other people.
Daniel Bryan
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Some people are born ugly. It's not their fault, and I for one have never held it against a man that he is ugly. but others — and I count myself among them — are born with handsome features. That's a gift that should not be lightly taken away.
David Gemmell
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
Ike Skelton
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If I read a script and I like it, there's nothing that will stop me from trying to be in that movie.
Brenton Thwaites
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I'm a linguist. I study how people talk to each other and how the ways we talk affect our relationships.
Deborah Tannen