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Deborah Tannen Quotes

It's a particularly modern myth that married people are best friends. The best-friend concept is a uniquely female phenomena.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Best People Friends Modern Myth

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

Love Music Way Always Gone Rule

Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant.

Great Name Only Accepted Sons His

Vampirism, for me, was a way to live in fantasy and have superpowers, but not just in a really perfect, happy, everything is great way. It's superpowers with a cost. It's having to be the villain, and what do you do about that.

Stephenie Meyer

Live Great Happy Me Villain You

It is a heartening experience to know that you are loved and being missed.

Experience Loved You Know Missed

I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running.

Roger Bannister

Feeling Three Up Well Climbing Been

A 527 doesn't have a wife. It doesn't have a brother-in-law who knows a lot about politics, or a union president who calls and doesn't like the color of the suit, or bimbo eruptions. It's the perfect candidate, because it has no personal characteristics.

Politics Wife Color Perfect Personal

I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.

Beginning Me Writing Feel Plan Tell

Once you know how to make a movie, you can't not make a movie.

You Know Make Movie How Once

People crave community, more efficient living, and easier access to the places they want to go.

Community People Go Want Living

We certainly had an upheaval at the start of the Great Depression, and that resulted in a lot of financial reform, but it wasn't done in one stroke, and it wasn't done immediately. The Depression was in 1929 and resulted in the Securities and Exchange Act of '33, '34, '35, '37, '39, and '41.

Lloyd Blankfein

Great Depression Start Financial Act

Being a nurturer isn't being a moron.

Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic.

Democracy Action Without Tell Pursue

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