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.Deborah Tannen
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor -
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.
Mahesh Babu -
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.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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.
Karl Liebknecht -
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?
Samantha Harvey -
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.
Felipe VI of Spain
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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.
Kat Edmonson -
The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
Iain McGilchrist -
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Lara Spencer -
A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
Iain Glen
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
Edgar Fiedler -
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.
Laura Hillenbrand -
When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
Becky G -
I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
Ferdinand Marcos -
Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
Patrick deWitt -
I was always fascinated with science, and being Persian, it's instilled in us at a young age to follow something very academic in our career.
Nazanin Boniadi
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Representation is a sort of surveillance.
Martine Syms -
Hopefully, one day people will be able to look at Mumford & Sons and say, 'that's a career band.' It's all about time instead of sales.
Ben Lovett Mumford & Sons -
I do respect them; I have great respect for women. In fact, one of the reasons 'The Apprentice' was such a successful show for so many years, the audience of women was fantastic.
Donald Trump -
Elections cannot inconvenience me. They ratify my will or I neuter them.
George Hearst -
All my life, I never realized you could have a conversation with a ghost.
Poe Ballantine -
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.
Deborah Tannen