Deborah Tannen Quotes

Everything we say has metamessages indicating how our words are to be interpreted: Is this a serious statement or a joke? Does it show annoyance or goodwill? Most of the time, metamessages are communicated and interpreted without notice because, as far as anyone can tell, the speaker and the hearer agree on their meaning.

Deborah Tannen

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I came to Miami for the first time during the winter, and naturally, I fell in love with the weather.

Joanna Krupa

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Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.

Joan Collins

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In principle, junk bonds are basically useful, but they are used excessively and irrationally, notably in takeovers.

Maurice Allais

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We need to boost our intake of healthy plant foods and reduce our dependence on animal-based foods.

Michael Greger

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I am far from the first to conclude that Donald Trump lacks the temperament to be president.

Mitt Romney

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America is still the land of opportunity, and hard work is still a pathway to success.

Dianne Feinstein

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The thing that means the most to me is being remembered as a Yankee, because that's what I've always wanted to be, was to be a Yankee.

Derek Jeter

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They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

Dorothy Day

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National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services.

Corazon Aquino

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I got agitated at the idea that racism is a Southern thing. Did you hear about the cross-burning out here? A black family moved into an upper-middle-class Los Angeles suburb and found a cross burning on their lawn. Swastikas are being painted on synagogues. I'm moving to France. I don't think this 'kinder, gentler nation' bit is working too well.

Pruitt Taylor Vince

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You can't get anything done hanging out all day long.

Pharrell Williams

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The process is so much longer than the result for almost everything all of us are doing.

Ryan Lewis

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