Deborah Tannen Quotes
I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. For part of my life, I was living in Detroit, and I remember a friend of mine commenting she could always tell when I had been speaking to my mother because my New York accent had come back.Deborah Tannen
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
Tamsin Greig -
Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.
Barry Ritholtz -
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
Samuel Butler -
You have to relish the challenge of television.
Laura Linney -
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
Hannah Arendt -
I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
Taylour Paige
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Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
Fidel Castro -
I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
Samuel Adams -
We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.
Larry Ellison -
Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
Orson Welles -
The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
Karen Joy Fowler
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
Adam Mansbach -
I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
J. D. Vance -
I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
Mackenzie Crook -
Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.
Basmah bint Saud -
I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.
Randeep Hooda -
In the morning, I use a Philosophy cleanser and Olay Regenerist Daily 3 Point Treatment Cream, which sinks in well and feels firming. I rarely wear foundation, so cotton wool soaked in warm water is often enough to cleanse at night, but I take off eye make-up with Klorane's cornflower-infused remover.
Saffron Aldridge
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I've worked very hard for everything I have and nothing has come easy.
LeAnn Rimes -
I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
Ted Cruz -
You cannot continue to succeed in the world or have a fulfilling life in the world unless you choose to use your life in the service somehow to others and give back what you have been given. That's how you keep it. That's how you get it. That's how you grow it.
Oprah Winfrey -
Fashion has always been as big a part of my life as football has.
Paul Pogba -
I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. For part of my life, I was living in Detroit, and I remember a friend of mine commenting she could always tell when I had been speaking to my mother because my New York accent had come back.
Deborah Tannen