Deborah Tannen Quotes

I think of myself as a writer as much as I think of myself as a linguist and an academic. I really enjoy writing - playing with language and getting just the right metaphor.

Deborah Tannen

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MyselfWritingThinkLanguageEnjoy

I love playing video games, but I'm regularly disappointed in the limited and limiting ways women are represented.

Anita Sarkeesian

LoveWomenVideo GamesGamesPlaying

I don't even date; I'm terrible with women.

Andy Weir

WomenTerribleDateEven

I've learned and grown as a songwriter.

Luis Fonsi

SongwriterLearnedGrown

A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does not the whole world, seen and unseen, go to the making up of every human being?

Lucy Larcom

LifeWorldUniversePictureGoUp

I rarely step on sidewalk cracks. I don't wear a watch. I touch my favorite tree before going on long trips.

Louise Erdrich

TreeStepLongTouchWearGoing

'Swagger' would be the word for 'Dirt On My Boots.' With the real funky drum loop and the ganjo rolling down, and then the fiddles and the guitar and steel, it really took an old school style where it's fiddle, steel, guitar, and mixed it with a drum loop.

Jon Pardi

StyleSchoolGuitarBootsDownDirt

Civilization can never be sustainable.

Derrick Jensen

CivilizationNeverSustainable

I do one thing - I don't do it on purpose - but I always make other guys look underdressed.

Chris Gardner

PurposeLookAlwaysOne ThingGuys

I didn't know anything about fashion. You would see me in the biggest sweater with jeans or the tightest elastic pants. Not nice clothes. My mom took me a lot to consignment stores when I was younger, and I never really got to go to fancy high-class stores, so... vintage was like a step up.

Coco Rocha

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I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.

Allegra Huston

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I quit 'Jhalak' for 'Balika Vadhu.' I suffered from dengue; I was in ICU for three days, and then I quit 'Balika Vadhu.' I needed a change and wanted to experience new things.

Pratyusha Banerjee

ChangeExperienceNew ThingsThree

Architects design houses. I live in a home.

Peter Eisenman

HomeLiveDesignArchitectsHouses

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