Deborah Tannen Quotes
Conflict and opposition are as necessary as cooperation and agreement, but the scale is off balance, with conflict and opposition overweighted.Deborah Tannen
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
Pat Boone -
If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
Lance Armstrong -
I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
Samuel Goldwyn -
Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
Vanna Bonta -
I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.
Sir Isaac Brock KB -
Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.
Ida Lupino
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
Gabriel Basso -
When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
Ted Rall -
I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland.
Ma Jian -
I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.
Ogden Nash -
Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
Katee Sackhoff -
I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.
Baba Kalyani
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For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.
Harbhajan Singh -
The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.
Ted Sarandos -
We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.
Xavier Becerra -
If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.
Naima Adedapo -
When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.
Fetty Wap -
The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
Walt Whitman
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I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.
Gabrielle Giffords -
By working toward a financial objective, you'll start to see the money add up for retirement or the credit card balance go down. But it doesn't have an immediate impact on your day-to-day life, and when it does - like when you're pinching pennies to save more - the immediate impact could feel negative.
Jean Chatzky -
One thing I struggled with early in my career was the delicate balance between my performance and my identity. When things on the field went well, I was cheerful and felt important. When things went poorly, my countenance and self-concept plummeted, and I was not pleasant to be around.
Benjamin Watson -
I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.
R. Kelly -
I made the film to bring the story of Islam, the story of 700 million of people, to the West.
Moustapha Akkad -
Conflict and opposition are as necessary as cooperation and agreement, but the scale is off balance, with conflict and opposition overweighted.
Deborah Tannen