Deborah Tannen Quotes

I can't tell you how many times I heard from younger sisters that their older sisters were bossy and judgmental.

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• The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Serious
  • Journalism

• You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Life
  • Important
  • Children

• Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Work
  • Petty
  • Awards

• Time has changed and now is the age of spending.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Time
  • Age
  • Now

• I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Good
  • Future
  • Good Things

• I have worked with top directors like Rajamouli and Vinayak and with upcoming directors like Vamsi.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Like
  • Directors
  • Top

• Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Food
  • Yourself
  • Away

• If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Different
  • Movie

• When I look back at the record and listen to it, I can sort of see where I was at when I was making it - these brief little moments, different places I was at emotionally.

  

  Washed Out
  • Different
  • Moments
  • Look

• We burden ourselves with useless ideas which we carelessly take as facts. Instead of letting reality come as a new surprise, we insist that it conform to our habitual concepts, and thus, we spoil everything.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Reality

• You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Time
  • High
  • Future

• I was only the returned Oriental eccentric, drunk at that…

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Drunk

• Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash

• Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • God

• I did go bankrupt because everybody copied me - every single industry. But genuinely, it doesn't matter. I swear I don't care.

  

  Maripol
  • Single

• On Disney, we stick to the script. But you go to the 'Grown Ups set' and it's completely different. Same thing with Tyler Perry - it's nothing but ad-libbing.

  

  China Anne McClain
  • Different
  • Disney

• I worked for a temp agency called Manpower.

  

  Kevin Nealon

• Just to have that sense of family, it gives you something that you know you need to take care of for the rest of your life. People gave it to him, and he passed it on to us.

  

  Benny Green
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• No one would touch me with a barge pole as an actress. It hit hard. I thought, 'What am I doing? This is a stupid idea!' It's like throwing yourself into a massive pond, and you feel like you're going to drown so quickly.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Stupid

• All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Die
  • Changes

• The way I was taught, being black was a plus, always. Being a human being, being in America, and being black, all three were the greatest things that could happen to you. The combination was unbeatable.

  

  Leontyne Price
  • America
  • Black
  • Human

• Over the weekend, Vladimir Putin scored eight goals during a hockey game. It happened just after he had the goalie executed.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Game
  • Goals
  • Weekend

• I believe that, that Christ became sin for us.

  

  William P. Young
  • Believe
  • Christ
  • Sin

• I can't tell you how many times I heard from younger sisters that their older sisters were bossy and judgmental.

  

  Deborah Tannen