Deborah Tannen Quotes
The dynamic of fathers and sons seems to be more around competition regarding things such as knowledge, accomplishments, expertise.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
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The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.
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I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.
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I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.
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No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.
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I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.
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We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone. The Man of Science, the Chemist and Mathematician, whatever difficulties and disgusts they may have had to struggle with, know and feel this. However painful may be the objects with which the Anatomist's knowledge is connected, he feels that his knowledge is pleasure; and where he has no pleasure he has no knowledge.
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The dynamic of fathers and sons seems to be more around competition regarding things such as knowledge, accomplishments, expertise.
