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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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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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
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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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I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.
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I think the idea of participation trophies has gotta be a really, really great thing. Kids are under enough pressure as it is without encouraging them to be the best too early.
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All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Whether I'm at home in London or in Paris for Loewe, I always like to walk to work.
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Play Trivial Pursuit with me, and you'll be astonished. I can remember every outfit I wore to every party going back to 1983.
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There can be an energy in a populist campaign that isn't always in the best interest of the party.
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Child, that is why all the rest are now a horror to her. That is what happens to those who pluck and eat fruits at the wrong time and in the wrong way. Oh, the fruit is good, but they loath it ever after.
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If you talk to your friends the way your parents talk, they will think you are stiff and odd.
