Deborah Tannen Quotes

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

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• Everyone romanticizes somebody.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Everyone
  • Somebody

• Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Men
  • Father
  • You

• I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Star
  • Big

• For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • Difficult
  • Lord

• It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Song
  • Creative
  • Begin

• Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Art
  • Man
  • Religion

• The director had come to Madrid to court me.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Director
  • Come
  • Court

• When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Music
  • Live
  • Best

• He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Long
  • Sports
  • Win

• Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Opportunity
  • Team
  • Change

• I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Cool

• I just developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up the Southern accent. I talked like that with my friends all the time, because it was fun. It was funny... All my friends were real Southern. We're buddies, so I'd say stuff to make them laugh. So that was pretty much it.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Business
  • Driving
  • Horizon

• All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Skills
  • Producer
  • Using

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Together
  • Better

• All our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to be deeply loved yet left alone so they can try a new skill, new slang, new style, new flip-flops. So they can trip a few times, make mistakes, cross them out, try again, with no one keeping score.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • May
  • Alone

• Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

  

  Charles Farrar Browne
  • Live
  • Money
  • Happy

• I'll find myself having dinner with people and someone will mention something and I will say I was in that situation once. Then I'll say, forget it, it was a scene I was in. That can get to be quite confusing.

  

  Christian Bale
  • People

• Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.

  

  Bernard Beckett
  • World
  • Simple

• Unfortunately, I think the expectation is that birthday girls don't pay.

  

  Carolyn Hax
  • Thinking
  • Girl

• The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Relationship
  • Mistake