Deborah Tannen Quotes

Sister relationships span a huge range, from best friends to worst enemies. From 'I adore her; I talk to her five times a day' to 'I decided to cut her out of my life.' For most women, it's in between.

Deborah Tannen

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LifeWomenBestDaySisterMy Life

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

Melissa Rosenberg

PatienceChallengeSpaceGiftYou

You look at the tremendous success of Facebook. To my mind there is not a lot of commerce going on in these social networking sites. eBay is a community anchored in commerce. It is a commerce site that built a community around it. What has not been proven is if the reverse can happen and people will go to community sites to do commerce.

Meg Whitman

SuccessCommunityPeopleMindLook

The lives of the young are so tumultuous.

Amitava Kumar

YoungTumultuousLives

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

Sigmar Gabriel

FoodManagementSecurityLostBecome

So long as no one knows everything about you, you have resources you can call upon for which no one is really prepared.

Roger Zelazny

LongYouResourcesEverythingCall

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

Moby

LifeMomentPeopleMeBehaviorYou

I felt that the Fed had always been the agency that picked up the pieces when there was a financial crisis, and it was invented to do exactly that.

Janet Yellen

FinancialCrisisAlwaysUpPieces

I would never consent to a lame publicity stunt at a time when I already want to hide.

Diablo Cody

TimeHideWantNeverConsentStunt

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.

Courtney Love

MotherAloneI AmNowRightSingle

I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.

Woody Allen

FunnyHumorThinkChoiceFirst

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

William Shakespeare

HeartWordsMatterMere

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

William J. Clinton

EducationMotivationInformationNew

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