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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[My mother] was taking me to Shakespeare In The Park when I was like 6. There was just a lot of theater-going and a lot of movie-going and a lot of discussion about it afterwards, dissecting it and stuff.
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Once you start something, finish it. Don't accumulate a backlog of unfinished projects.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
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Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there is, and can be, nothing freely given. It's fresh existence is paid for by the old age and death of a worn out existence which has perished, but which contained the indestructible seed out of which the new existence has arisen: they are one being.
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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.
