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Deborah Tannen Quotes

If you talk to your friends the way your parents talk, they will think you are stiff and odd.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Parents Think Friends You Way Talk

I remember being so homesick and realizing that where I came from was not something that existed in the cultural imagination outside the city. People used to think Miami was just partying in South Beach all the time.

Jennine Capó Crucet

Time Beach Imagination People City

Subsidies are hugely important; they represent America's de facto energy policy.

Energy America Important Policy

I always had the street mentality, but when you're older, you get more mature.

Metta World Peace

You Street Mature More Always Get

Sometimes I want to yell on this track; I want to yell the whole song, and I don't think nothing's wrong with that, but the older generation feel like you can't.

Song Think Generation Feel You Want

Listener and reader input is every bit as important as anything any of us can say. We'd be like crazy people chattering in the middle of that empty field that Joe Biden thinks we should stand in to be safe from swine flu if it weren't for the calls, the letters, the blogs, and the reaction from our audience.

People Crazy Stand Important Say

I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff.

Love Time Doing Playing Different

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.

Douglas William Jerrold

Respect Man Moon Look New Will

Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue written, whereas I don't invent dialogue for my subjects or plot their lives for them.

Nature More Difficult Dialogue Plot

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

Brantley Gilbert

Me Songwriting Therapeutic

I am single and without children. I'm actually one of those people who's just never had a great desire to have kids.

Children Great I Am People Desire

It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.

Sheila Jackson Lee

Budget Talk Right Amendment Disagree

You could get an entire computer science education for free right now.

Sebastian Thrun

Education Science Free You Now Get

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