Deborah Tannen Quotes
The study of gender and language might seem at first to be a narrowly focused field, but it is actually as interdisciplinary as they come.Deborah Tannen
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My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
Maggie Stiefvater -
If we don't end war, war will end us.
H. G. Wells -
Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
Edie Falco -
I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
Mac DeMarco -
I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.
Idina Menzel
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I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
Pat Metheny -
I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
J. D. Vance -
I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
Patricia Ireland -
It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
Valentina Tereshkova -
I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my sisters, and I know the anger that she went through.
Nate Robinson -
One thing matters more than anything else for a dating product, and that is the quantity and quality of the people who use the product. It's really freaking hard to get critical mass.
Sam Yagan
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
B. C. Forbes -
Wearable technology is not just for consumers. It creates a tremendous opportunity for businesses, too.
Parker Harris -
You know, I've always tried to look at things as just what the part was. I never tried to worry about whether it was the lead or not the lead, because I think you can really mess your mind up when you're too caught up in those things.
Yul Vazquez -
The dose makes the poison.
Paracelsus -
I would rather Google other people than Google myself.
Iman -
Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.
Usher
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Most interesting forest I have seen in my whole life.
John Muir -
In swimming, everyone calls me grandma, because I'm the oldest there. Then with my friends, I'm the youngest and I'm the baby. It's definitely bizarre.
Amanda Beard -
I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut!
Sean Patrick Thomas -
We're going to try a couple of other things this week.
Joe Gibbs -
The study of gender and language might seem at first to be a narrowly focused field, but it is actually as interdisciplinary as they come.
Deborah Tannen