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Deborah Tannen Quotes

I'm a linguist. I study how people talk to each other and how the ways we talk affect our relationships.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: sociologist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 7, 1945

Topics

People Relationships Talk Study Our

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Time Thinking Over Worse Sloppy

One of the nice things about songwriting is you can be inspired by absolutely anything.

You Nice Songwriting Anything Things

If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don' think it's gotten there yet.

Think Guitar Stand More Sound Own

If I wasn't a model, I don't know what I'd do, but I would be working just as hard at whatever it was.

Know Hard Whatever Working Just

After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.

Great Hero Washington Years Becoming

If you saw me trying to do laundry or something, well, I'm not really equipped to do anything else.

Me Trying You Laundry Anything Saw

I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.

Michael Scheuer

Leadership Think Criticism Honor Him

A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.

Daily Trust Stupidity Society Greed

The risk of relying on a handful of customers is not just financial. Your product also is at risk when you're at the mercy of a few big spenders. When any one customer pays you significantly more than the others, your product inevitably ends up catering mostly to that customer's specific needs.

Financial Customer You Mercy Others

The Internet works thanks to loose but trusted connections among its many constituent parts, with easy entry and exit for new Internet service providers or new forms of expanding access.

Jonathan Zittrain

Service Connections Internet Easy

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

Christopher Lasch

Capitalism Understanding Values Claim

I grew up a wrestling fan, so to be doing what my 'heroes' were doing when I was a kid, it's fun. I have fun out there.

Fun Have Fun Doing Wrestling Heroes

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