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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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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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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I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.
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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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You always want to feel better but I'm good. My thing is once you get to the playoffs, you do whatever it takes. You've got to lay it on the line.
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Only criminals want to use cash.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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For horror movies, it's great because I know exactly what I am doing and what should be done. But for a cop drama, I can't calm my face down, and so it's really nice to be able to be in this genre where nothing is too much, and no one yells at me for having big eyes.
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I’d say I was doing a great job submitting to God by submitting to my desires. Who do you think gave me desire in the first place?
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Asian cultures... place great value on avoiding open expression of disagreement and conflict because they emphasize harmony.
