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Deborah Tannen Quotes

I was one of those daughters who saw my mother as my enemy when I was a teen.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Mother Teen Enemy Saw Who Daughters

As MBA professors endlessly tell their students, companies do best when they stick to what they do well. There's a reason Apple doesn't make blenders. There's a reason Haagen-Dazs doesn't sell meat. And there's a reason drug companies should focus on saving and improving lives - not jeopardizing them.

Best Focus Apple Reason Meat Tell

I find all that slightly destructive but mad love alluring.

Love Find Mad Destructive Alluring

Monterey, I remember, but I seem to remember the Fillmore West, that we played the week before Monterey. That was much more memorable for me. The first time in San Francisco. They were good gigs.

Good Time Me Remember Week First

What we know is that when girls don't go to school, they earn lower salaries. They get married earlier. They have higher infant and maternal mortality rates. And they're more likely to contract HIV, less likely to immunize their children.

Children School Go Know More Earn

Like many people, I became increasingly alarmed during the 2016 campaign and the first year of the Trump administration by the full-on war being waged on the very idea of truth.

Michiko Kakutani

Truth War People Year First Being

I was never named in the early years as having anything to do with the assassination of Malcolm.

Louis Farrakhan

Early Never Years Anything Having

ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.

Future Great Organization Think Alec

Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.

Death Face You Know Forever Dealing

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.

Past Ideas Trying Attention Special

By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.

End Sharks Whales Years Up Been

I'm not sure that Jesuits ever produce faithful Catholics. Because they're too fierce. It is Sturm und Drang, and it is guilt - it is all that battlefield stuff.

Fierce Guilt Faithful Sure Stuff

The aliens coming and wiping our electricity and having technical power over us... we don't know what's out there. It something that seems so fictional, but it's something that's possible.

Seychelle Gabriel

Power Electricity Know Possible Over

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