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Deborah Tannen Quotes

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Unique Know Others See Individuals

People generally think of technology simply as a spur to start new businesses. But the Internet has also made it possible for more businesses to compete for any given opportunity.

Technology Opportunity People Start

I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

Love New York New Outsider Here

Ever since I was a little girl, I loved to make things. I always made dresses for my Barbie dolls. When I was 13, I designed my Bat Mitzvah dress.

Girl Dress Loved Barbie Dresses Bat

Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier to resist compromise, let alone collaboration.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Alone People Collaboration Compromise

Originally I wanted somewhere to set my short stories about the sort of people I recognise having grown up with. Carnbeg was staring me in the face all the time, only I had somehow failed to see that. Not seeing the wood for the trees, I suppose.

Time People Me Face Trees Short

We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing but if we have people who are absolutely on the streets in this case, I think it makes sense that tent cities are preferred to not having tent cities.

People Think Doing Housing Streets

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Live Courage Sometimes Act Even

Designers have always shown outlandish and exuberant clothes, but that hasn't always translated to the streets.

Clothes Always Streets Exuberant

Social support is everything.

Support Everything Social

I can look back at things I've done and said and worn and be completely humiliated by them, but I can never say it wasn't me. I feel really honored to say that.

Me Feel Look Back I Can Done

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

Truth Mind Advertising Fairness More

I'm never afraid of pattern or texture.

Ashley Nell Tipton

Never Afraid Texture Pattern

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