Deborah Tannen Quotes

Back when the powerful 19th-century senator Henry Clay was called 'the great compromiser,' achieving a compromise really was considered great.

Deborah Tannen

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My father was in the service. His job was to integrate the Armed Forces overseas. So that meant we showed up at military bases in Okinawa or Germany, racially unannounced. That made me, in that particular society if you will, the outsider.

Joe Morton

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I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models.

Solomon Ortiz

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My favorite bands are Hank Williams Jr. and Led Zeppelin. When it's rock, it's '70s rock, and when it's country, it's '70s country. For me, it's the grit and dirt of music that I love so much.

Shooter Jennings

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Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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I think the writing on the wall is definitely there this year that this is probably our last year.

Michael Shanks

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Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

Joyce Meyer

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I grew up reading 'Lord of the Rings' and comic books, so that kind of epic quality I like.

Joseph Morgan

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As far as open conversations with random people, no I don't really enjoy them.

Syd

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If I make a movie in English, the money will come from Europe, so that I can keep my independence and freedom. The way they produce in Hollywood doesn't fit me.

Pedro Almodovar

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Comedy is really best when watched with other people, and I don't really understand people who sit at home watching comedy movies on Netflix.

Scott Aukerman

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I love Carly Fiorina's fire; she's feisty as heck. She really seems to fearlessly take the fight right to the doorstep of the Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

Nicolle Wallace

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It must have been the fall of 1952 when my father returned to London sporting a neck tie emblazoned with the words 'I Like Ike.'

Nigel Hamilton

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