Deborah Tannen Quotes
One of the first studies in the field of gender and language, by Don H. Zimmerman and Candace West in 1975, found that in casual conversations between women and men, women were interrupted far more often.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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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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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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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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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
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I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.
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Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.
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While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written under the sign of a political mood.
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One of the first studies in the field of gender and language, by Don H. Zimmerman and Candace West in 1975, found that in casual conversations between women and men, women were interrupted far more often.
