Deborah Tannen Quotes
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
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The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.
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Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
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I was formerly so stuck into plans. I can now live more spontaneously. This I want not yet to give away.
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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
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Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.
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I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.
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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
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My father died when I was 9 years old. The miserable condition of my family at that time is beyond description. My family, solitary and without influence, became at once the target of much insult and abuse.
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As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
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Having my feet be as good as I want them to be can get me out of a lot of problems when I'm in the pocket and stuff starts to break down. There's rarely ever a perfect pocket.
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They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty for romancing is imparted by a seafaring life as readily and surely as a rolling gait and a weather-beaten countenance. A fine imagination is one of the gifts of the ocean-witness the surprising and unlimited power of expression and epithet possessed by the sailor. And a fine imagination will frequently manifest itself in other ways besides swear words.
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Our ways of relating to each other become like habits.
