Deborah Tannen Quotes
In a world of status, independence is key, because a primary means of establishing status is to tell others what to do, and taking orders is a marker of low status. Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I love simplicity.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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I think the Creator renews me.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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The FCC is a quasi-judicial body. It is supposed to undertake this period of public comment with a degree of seriousness and respect.
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I'd rather offer my life as a sacrifice than be necessary to anything.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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It's true that there are younger people making films, and there are different kinds of films. This has created some attention in what's coming out of Greece, and people like to find a way to name this new ethnic cinema. It's not like there's a movement, or a common philosophy in making these films. They're just things that happened, and now people are paying attention to it.
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In a world of status, independence is key, because a primary means of establishing status is to tell others what to do, and taking orders is a marker of low status. Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.
