Deborah Tannen Quotes

Mothers and daughters find in each other the source of great comfort but also of great pain. We talk to each other in better and worse ways than we talk to anyone else.

Deborah Tannen

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GreatPainBetterFindComfortTalk

Color is an intense experience on its own.

Jim Hodges

ExperienceColorOwnIntense

Everybody goes through challenges. There's stuff that happens personally that's challenging, stuff in work that's difficult, disappointments that happen.

Melanie Lynskey

WorkChallengesDifficultHappen

Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.

Tori Amos

MeLegalNameNieceAuntNephews

I sometimes think I've needed a bit of an arm around me in my career - which I've not always got from certain managers and coaches who didn't understand me.

Robbie Fowler

MeThinkCareerSometimesUnderstand

We certainly should support both parties having observers at the polling stations to make sure that neither side does anything that allowed a fraudulent vote. That's a very healthy check on the process.

Ron Johnson

SupportProcessHealthyVoteSide

I think to adequately manage a crisis, you have to see it. Because there's only so much somebody else can tell you about it, and they impose their own distortions on the description. You need to see it yourself.

Rudy Giuliani

YourselfThinkYouCrisisNeedSee

'You're beautiful' was the compliment I craved so much. I didn't care if people called me smart or innovative - it was the number-one compliment I gave out to other women hoping it was given back to me. I heard people saying it to my best friends. It was the one I wanted to hear more than anything else.

Rupi Kaur

WomenBeautifulBestSmartPeople

Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it's the objective.

Rush Limbaugh

SolutionPartyDemocraticObjective

I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.

Diablo Cody

PersonParticipationNeverIndustry

I would hope I was raised polite and charming.

Douglas Booth

HopeCharmingI Was RaisedWould

In my experience over the past 30 years in business, investment decisions can be slowed or stopped due to unpredictability in laws and regulatory framework or if free trade and competition is hampered or access to capital restricted.

Borje Ekholm

BusinessExperiencePastCompetition

I know Chuck Lorre personally, and am familiar with his work going back to 'Roseanne' and 'Cybil.'

Bob Newhart

WorkBackKnowGoingHisPersonally

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