Deborah Tannen Quotes

I've long believed that if you understand how conversational styles work, you can make adjustments in conversations to get what you want in your relationships.

Deborah Tannen

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WorkLongYouWantUnderstandGet

I could open up a little gym, and I would be blissfully happy.

Jillian Michaels

HappyGymOpenUpLittleWould

Actors and singers share common ground in that they both express something.

Andra Day

GroundShareSomethingCommonBoth

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Robert Southey

LoveLiveI AmDieBreatheWhere

The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation.

Tran Duc Luong

JusticePeacePeopleWorldStability

When it's all said and done, Linares is an exceptional fighter.

Tony Bellew

SaidDoneFighterExceptional

He lives out in Orchard Park. I mean, to be able to sit on the bench so patiently, for whatever part, and to be able to get up and do something, with such heroic competencies would be great.

Robert Creeley

GreatMeanBenchWhateverOutPark

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.

Robert Englund

MeYouActingMoviesMoreSell

What made me this way was watching my father go through bad employment experiences. When I was 17, and he was 65, I saw him go through the experiences working for a boss that was rude and obnoxious. I swore if I was ever had the capacity to run a company that I would do it in a different way.

Tom Golisano

FatherBossMeBadGoRun

After many of my victories, I hear people asking me these questions: 'What else is there to win?' And I want to shout, 'What do you mean, what else? There's so much else!'

Mikaela Shiffrin

PeopleMeWinQuestionsYouWant

So what's really behind the 'English Only' Movement? Fear. Fear of being taken over and one day they will have to learn something different. Heaven forbid they would have to learn something new.

Cheech Marin

FearDayLearnHeavenNewOne Day

Yoga has been the best tool for managing stress and life's challenges. Everything from my studies to my father's death was eased by my practice of it.

Christy Turlington

LifeFatherBestStressDeathTool

Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

Augustus Y. Napier

FamilyWomenResponsibilityMenCare

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