Deborah Tannen Quotes

It is easy to understand why conflict is so often highlighted: Writers of headlines or promotional copy want to catch attention and attract an audience. They are usually under time pressure, which lures them to established, conventionalized ways of expressing ideas in the absence of leisure to think up entirely new ones.

Deborah Tannen

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Jews seek to cleave to the will of God as set forth in the Bible and, particularly, the Pentateuch, with its rabbinic commentaries, the Mishnah and Talmud.

Meir Soloveichik

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If you were approaching the TARP investments from a pure investment standpoint, then there's no doubt in my mind the taxpayer lost, and probably lost big.

Jeb Hensarling

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Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Seven months after Hurricane Sandy, New Jersey residents and business are continuing the hard work of recovery.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

WorkHard WorkBusinessNewRecovery

I don't believe in nationalism. I think it's a bunch of slogans. It's a bunch of poor attempts at creating pride. My problem with nationalism is that it becomes exclusionary. We start to exclude people.

Miguel Syjuco

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Women need to think about where they've been, where they are, where they're going, and how they're going to get there.

Denise Morrison

WomenThinkNeedWhereGoingGet

I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.

Constance Wu

FunnyMeWorldThinkYouBad

We care a lot more about not having the disease than treating it.

Anne Wojcicki

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Just put one foot in front of the other.

Austin Peck

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My wife does wish I dressed better.

Sean Hannity

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I'm in favour of a multi-polar world. I believe that every country has the right to defend its own interests.

Marine Le Pen

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I wanted to become a model since I was a kid.

Marisa Berenson

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