Deborah Tannen Quotes
For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His 'Buckwheat Sings' is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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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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As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.
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Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.
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He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.
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I remember making the all-star team in Little League when I was around 11 years old. I was not a great athlete, but I loved it, so making starting second base in the all-star was great for me. I think someone must have been sick and they slotted me in.
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Stephen Hawking is getting a divorce. That's scary. If the smartest guy in the world can't figure out women, we're screwed.
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It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
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We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait. Democracy, civilization itself, is at stake. Within the next few years we must change the basic structure of our global community from the present anarchic system of war and ever more destructive weaponry to a new system governed by a democratic UN federation.
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The last couple of practices, all we've been doing is a lot of defensive things. We've been going over some drills that make all of us have to communicate.
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For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.
