Deborah Tannen Quotes
Conflict can't be avoided in our public lives any more than we can avoid conflict with people we love. One of the great strengths of our society is that we can express these conflicts openly.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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The smouldering eroticism of great European actresses like Jeanne Moreau demonstrated to my generations women's archetypal mystery and glamour, completely missing from the totalitarian world-view of the misogynist Foucault. For me, the big French D is not Derrida, but Deneuve.
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People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated.
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People always say, 'Who is your audience?' and I could never put a finger on it - and I wouldn't want to put a finger on it.
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In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.
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Conflict can't be avoided in our public lives any more than we can avoid conflict with people we love. One of the great strengths of our society is that we can express these conflicts openly.
