Deborah Tannen Quotes
For many women, and a fair number of men, saying 'I'm sorry' isn't literally an apology; it's a ritual way of restoring balance to a conversation.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!
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Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.
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We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.
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Trump is a master obfuscator. Like an octopus escaping a predator, he releases a cloud of ink when called to the carpet on one of his many lies. His strategy? Obfuscate, then reference others. 'Millions agree,' 'everyone knows,' 'many have done it.'
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.
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I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
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Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.
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'Step Brothers' is probably the film the most people who approach me want to talk about.
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Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have been as to note how wise they have been.
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Coconut oil is a must for everything. It is fresh from the earth, so it naturally works to moisturize my scalp, skin, hair and even helps to remove eye makeup. It also smells delicious. You can buy it at a beauty store or the grocery store.
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For many women, and a fair number of men, saying 'I'm sorry' isn't literally an apology; it's a ritual way of restoring balance to a conversation.
