Deborah Tannen Quotes
I have two sisters; one is two years older, and one is eight years older. That helped me understand how completely different sister relationships can be.
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I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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For our white members, voting is something they have done for hundreds of years. But for us, it is not such a traumatic thing, because we have never participated in an election.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.
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I have a helicopter that I use for U.K. business trips, and I fly myself. I have a yacht in Antibes in the south of France, which is a sort of indulgence, as we only use it for about four weeks a year. The rest of the time, it is chartered out to people as a business.
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If people call into question my work ethic, that's fine, because I know what I'm doing behind the scenes.
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We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.
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I have two sisters; one is two years older, and one is eight years older. That helped me understand how completely different sister relationships can be.
