Deborah Tannen Quotes
Maybe we're kind of predisposed to think that anything a politician does is calculated and therefore suspect.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
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Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
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Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.
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I love gross kissing. I think it's the most fun thing to do.
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I like new challenges and new experiences.
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Perhaps this is because I'm from the generation that grew up watching 'The Jetsons' on TV, but I really thought we would be much more advanced in the areas of transportation and medicine.
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Legitimate small businesses are put at a huge competitive disadvantage when bad actors lie about their small business status and don't play by the rules.
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I started out making personal pieces, and realized that I actually like designing. I am self-taught, so I had a lot to learn technically.
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There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals.
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Glover Teixeira is a phenomenal opponent.
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When a man, after long years of searching, chances upon a thought which discloses something of the beauty of this mysterious universe, he should not therefore be personally celebrated. He is already sufficiently paid by his experience of seeking and finding.
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I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.
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Maybe we're kind of predisposed to think that anything a politician does is calculated and therefore suspect.
