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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This is my advice to entrepreneurs. It's easy to give up, but believe in your ideas. Surround yourself with people you respect and are smarter than you.
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I personally think 'Chimes of Midnight' is a much better film than 'Citizen Kane.'
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I've always been a voracious reader.
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In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with you in the days of ordinary conversation and in the circumstances of secular employment.
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A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
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Our ways of relating to each other become like habits.
