Deborah Tannen Quotes

The double bind lowers its boom on women in positions of authority, so those who haven't yet risen to such positions have not yet felt its full weight.

Deborah Tannen

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But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.

Johann Arndt

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I've never felt acting just happened to me. It's always been a part of my life, and I - hopefully, I'll prove that with every project of mine.

Mawra Hocane

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I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.

Ang Lee

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I would say I'm a medium-sized 'Star Trek' fan. I love the universe that it's created.

John Scalzi

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The tech-driven economy leads to a two-tier job market where workers are either critical or 'commodity.' This divisive 'winner-take-all' mentality hurts most Americans and worsens economic inequality.

Tom Steyer

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I was 29 and I really fell in love, I think, for the first time. I was vulnerable in a way I didn't think I could be.

Rosie O'Donnell

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But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.

Lotte Lehmann

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I have visited schools that have music programs and those that don't. I see the way the kids act with each other.

Joshua Bell

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I bite my fingernails. That's probably not a good thing.

JoJo

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Put on a camera and put on some whatever, and you're an actor. Put me in a cage, I'm a fighter. Put me somewhere else - I'm in an ocean, I'm a surfer. I don't know what I am, I just do it all. And I want to be good at everything.

Brian Ortega

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Human creatures, living in the circle of their intimates and friends, are too apt to remain in ignorance of the comments and instructions which may be made of what they say and do in the world at large. I entertain a great horror of this ignorance.

William Godwin

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As a reporter, going around, you hear stories you can't prove, which means you can't put them in the newspaper. But they're good stories, and I would jot them down thinking maybe one day I could write that as a short story.

Pete Hamill

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