Deborah Tannen Quotes
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
Samuel Butler -
They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
Idina Menzel -
I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
Walter Dean Myers -
Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
Sam Harris -
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
A. A. Milne -
It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.
Uday Kotak
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If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.
Wayne Dyer -
I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
Zooey Deschanel -
Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.
Nazanin Boniadi -
Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
Victoria Justice -
Have a little faith. Don't give up.
Fantasia Barrino -
I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
Taylor Wilson
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
Vance Havner -
I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
Olivia Wilde -
Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
Patrick Whitesell -
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
Barack Obama -
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
Beck
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A little longer still, and Heaven awaits thee,And fills thy spirit with a great delight;Then our pale joys will seem a dream forgotten,Our Sun a darkness, and our Day a Night.
Adelaide Anne Procter -
I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else.
Peter O'Toole -
My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.
Carly Simon -
All of us aspire to be powerful, and we all want to connect with others.
Deborah Tannen