Deborah Tannen Quotes
If you talk to your friends the way your parents talk, they will think you are stiff and odd.
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During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.
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After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.
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Some things have to be believed to be seen.
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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in the Internet at all.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
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I'm actually rubbish at selfies. I always feel a bit ridiculous doing it unless I'm with a bunch of friends, where I'll usually stand at the back with a huge grin on my face!
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It always struck me as pretty cool that people who changed the world often knew each other. After reading them separately, hearing that David Hume and Adam Smith were friends made sense.
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I'm happiest when I'm just hanging out with my friends... it really doesn't matter what we do.
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It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.
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If you talk to your friends the way your parents talk, they will think you are stiff and odd.
