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Deborah Tannen Quotes

For women, detailed conversation is our lifeblood, while for men it's just not as critical.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: sociologist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 7, 1945

Topics

Women Men Conversation Just Critical

Motherhood made me a better person.

Jessie James Decker

Me Motherhood Better Person Better

My nickname is 'Chief' because my father was a chief in Nigeria.

Father Because Chief Nigeria

To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

Music People Me Emotions Because

When Jennifer Lawrence says it's 'dumb' to go hungry to make other people happy, she's saying it with the carefree attitude of a woman who probably will never have to make that choice to conform.

Jennifer Armintrout

Attitude Woman Happy People Saying

When I'm in stage, I never plan, you know, 'I'm going to do this.' But of course, you have a concept what you're going to do. But you don't really plan it.

Plan You Know Never Stage Going

Being a model, you know, it's a short-lived vocation.

Andie MacDowell

You Know Vocation Being Model

The NBA has made it clear they want fan bases to be able to keep their teams.

Want NBA Keep Clear Able Made

Science or research is always under pressure to deliver something which can be used immediately for society.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

Science Research Society Pressure

They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts.

Joshua Sylvester

Life Shadows Say They Say Out Lamp

I write in the morning - and then I'm always experimenting and tasting recipes for the books.

Diane Mott Davidson

Morning Write Always Recipes Books

For each other, at each other: Sisters can be either or both. The same could be said of people in any close relationship. Yet there is something special about sisters - specially gratifying and specially fraught.

Relationship People Said Special

Role models really matter. It's hard to imagine yourself as something you don't see.

Chelsea Clinton

Yourself You Matter Hard See Role

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