Deborah Tannen Quotes
Much of my work over the years has developed the premise that women's styles of friendship and conversation aren't inherently better than men's, simply different.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.
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I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.
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The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his eyes so that after a short time he was always obliged to stop.
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Waiting for supply-side economics to work is like leaving the landing lights on for Amelia Earhart.
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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
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The whole mystery of commodities, all the magic and necromancy that surrounds the products of labor as long as they take the form of commodities, vanishes therefore, so soon as we come to other forms of production.
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In a society where commonweal does not exist, there are no duties, only exactations to be avoided, and no freedoms, only privileges to be grabbed. There can be no such thing as 'public services' because nothing in the country is truly public. Everything is somebody's fief. And every fief must be exploited if the exploiter cares to survive.
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Much of my work over the years has developed the premise that women's styles of friendship and conversation aren't inherently better than men's, simply different.
