Deborah Tannen Quotes
Asian cultures... place great value on avoiding open expression of disagreement and conflict because they emphasize harmony.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
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The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
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Being in 'Doctor Who' has been so amazing. I don't think I will ever have a job quite so fun ever again. I feel sad because I am going to leave, but with any story, it has to come to an end.
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Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.
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The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House.
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It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.
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Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
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That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.
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I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi.
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What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.
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I hate Mondays - I hate that feeling you've got to get yourself up.
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Trump is much, much worse than people understand. A lot of his supporters are actually much, much better than people know. Most of his supporters are not signed up for an authoritarian coup. Most of his supporters are signing up for better jobs for themselves.
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Life has no meaning a priori … It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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Come down the glorious steps of our banner. Every great record we have made we have vindicated with our blood and with our truth. It sweeps the ground, and it touches the stars. Come here, young man, and put in your young life where all is living, and where nothing is dead but the heroes that defended it.
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Asian cultures... place great value on avoiding open expression of disagreement and conflict because they emphasize harmony.
