Deborah Tannen Quotes
It might seem at first surprising that when I studied women and men talking at work, I found that women 'interrupted' each other more often than men did - when they were in all-women conversations.Deborah Tannen
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
Lady Gaga -
I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
Wayne McGregor -
Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.
Jack Kingston -
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Samuel Butler -
I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
Karin Slaughter -
Music will always be my greatest passion.
Vanessa Mae
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
Larry David -
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
Ignazio Silone -
It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
Sam Heughan -
I literally don't think about Oscar.
Octavia Spencer -
Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
C. S. Forester -
I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
Caitlin Doughty
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
Nancy Meyers -
I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
Orson Welles -
Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.
Pamela Meyer -
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
Abigail Adams -
In a unified and diverse Spain, based on the equality of and solidarity between its people, there is room for all of us. And for all of our feelings and sensitivities and our distinct ways of being Spaniards.
Felipe VI of Spain -
I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
Jack White The White Stripes
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The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same.
Charles Mengel Allen -
I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again.
Doris Kearns Goodwin -
I can't tell you how lucky I feel. I've gotten to work Peter Facinelli 'American Odyssey,' and I got to do 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2' - which really gave me such a tremendous amount of pride and patriotism, and it was very close to my heart. I've really had such great support, so many great teachers, and so many wonderful people surrounding me.
Elena Kampouris -
Film will always be my main focus, but designing and publishing my own work is something I will also always do.
David Slade -
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Alan Dundes -
It might seem at first surprising that when I studied women and men talking at work, I found that women 'interrupted' each other more often than men did - when they were in all-women conversations.
Deborah Tannen