Deborah Tannen Quotes

When daughters react with annoyance or even anger at the smallest, seemingly innocent remarks, mothers get the feeling that talking to their daughters can be like walking on eggshells: they have to watch every word.

Deborah Tannen

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I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.

Jillian Bach

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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

John Maynard Keynes

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I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal.

John Waters

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Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man.

Stevie Wonder

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My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.

Tony Blair

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You know, I don't only play for the record books.

Roger Federer

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As a rock band, you're slightly one foot in the past, playing instruments like guitar, bass and drums.

Matt Bellamy

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I'm not looking for anything more than any other guy. I like a good smile. Pretty eyes. She has to be active, like not play-sports active, but she'll play air hockey, do some pool, go for rides on the Santa Monica Pier. I would much rather have fun with her than do the cool thing.

Mitchel Musso

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When I have a family, I will be retired.

Lizzie Armitstead

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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Lord Byron

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I'd grown up in the U.K., where the surveillance apparatus went into place in the 1970s in response to the Troubles with the IRA. When I was a kid, we moved to Chicago, and I was surprised to see you could live in a large city in which you didn't have cameras on every street corner.

Jonathan Nolan

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I don't like routine and I don't like rules.

Dominique McElligott

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