Deborah Tannen
Related I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my inte... IAIN MCGILCHRIST guarantees freedoms and equalizes between everyone, women and men and different ethnic groups and re... HUMAM HAMMOUDI MICHAEL JORDAN If there's any interaction between genes and languages, it is often languages that influence genes, ... LUIGI LUCA CAVALLI-SFORZA REGGIE WHITE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES BILL COSBY IMAN I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists mu... ARNE GLIMCHER While our analysis showed that aspirin may have different effects in men and women, the relatively s... DR. JEFFREY BERGER I love them because the relationship between men and women was different at that time, FRANCIS VEBER As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours... KAMLA PERSAD-BISSESSAR FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT BILL COSBY BILL COSBY There is no difference between men and women and I tried to prove that even in logic men and women a... JANA TYLOVA Ladies, you have a ton of power if you just understand the fundamental differences between men and w... JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Something that always fascinated me was the psychology and the psychology differences between men an... KARRINE STEFFANS Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I ... ELISABETH MOSS LJUPKA CVETANOVA My whole career is slow and steady ... the limited choices I do have I try to change, try to choose ... JAKE WEBER WILLIAM JAMES The quickness of the games and recognizing different fronts are the biggest differences between this... ERIC SHELTON Politics is not a career. Politics is a service, a mission. If I am to choose between a decision tha... FRANCO DEBONO BENJAMIN WATSON I think this is a matter that's on a different level from the issue of equality between men and wome... HAKUBUN SHIMOMURA Women eat ice-cream, men toast marshmallows. DIANNA HARDY JAMES PATTERSON SOPHIA AMORUSO ANDREW WILES GENE RODDENBERRY JACK KINGSTON THOMAS SOWELL ERIC KANDEL My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career t... SAMUEL BARNETT There is very little difference between men and women in space. HELEN SHARMAN YVES CHAUVIN FENNEL HUDSON And it means snapshots, because that's what all stories I write come down to; each is a snapshot of ... CAITLíN R. KIERNAN I grew up about 30 minutes north of Boston in a town that was a virtual melting pot - I was exposed ... ALEX NEWELL DIANE VON FURSTENBERG Being able to talk to different groups of people from different backgrounds about the major news iss... ANGELA HERNANDEZ JARED DIAMOND DON HENLEY Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. Perh... NAOMI WEISSTEIN ANGELA CARTER ANGELA CARTER PABLO NERUDA Our findings are particularly noteworthy in that aspirin's main beneficial effects appeared to be th... JEFFREY BERGER REBECCA WEST KAREN MARIE MONING MICHAEL POLLAN I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in th... ADA YONATH SHERRY ARGOV SHARON GLESS I'm a synthesizer. We need to synthesize more the relationships between artists and scientists, ... LEONARD SHLAIN It's a great dynamic. The dynamic between men and women in the workplace is really interesting. ELISABETH MOSS RICHARD ROHR I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. J... MIKE POSNER LOUISE GLüCK Between the four years when you murdered my dad and now ... yeah, I grew a lot. GABRIEL POLK PIERRE BOURDIEU My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same,... CAROL GILLIGAN VICTOR HUGO MARYA HORNBACHER LIONEL SHRIVER I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition betwe... EDNA O'BRIEN We see people who are going around looking for differences in the props (odds) between the different... JEFF SHERMAN GREG NORMAN That day I realized that at least for the time being, I was becoming Christian’s somebody. MELYSSA WINCHESTER Cuz I can count on one hand the men who’ve loved me, not in the Biblical sense—I don’t have en... SHANNON CELEBI I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of m... LARS PETER HANSEN JOHN PIPER I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and rea... BRANTLEY GILBERT Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time s... KATE FOX MEGHAN DAUM GARY BECKER I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in differen... SOFIA COPPOLA When this secondary task was of a linguistic nature, the differences in response times for stimuli i... AUBREY GILBERT It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was l... LANCE REDDICK I decided to see how my voice sounds on different type of records. So I did Eminem and the Biggie, F... ANDRA DAY When there have been differences between the various forces with regard to a particular issue, and t... ZALMAY KHALILZAD C. L. R. JAMES DARREN ARONOFSKY KIEFER SUTHERLAND MARK RUFFALO OSCAR WILDE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition b... EDNA O'BRIEN J. MICHAEL BISHOP DAVID FOSTER WALLACE ANTHONY T. HINCKS CHELSEA CLINTON I would suggest that especially in the differential of images that arise, in the inflections that we... LORILIAI BIERNACKI I would suggest that especially in the differential of images that arise, in the inflections that we... LORILIAI BIERNACKI MAAJID NAWAZ Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little vil... RON MOODY Conversations between friends are the craziest and funniest of all. MOHITH AGADI MIROSLAV VOLF PABLO SANDOVAL
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DEBORAH EISENBERG I always need huge amounts of time to do anything. DEBORAH EISENBERG To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form. DEBORAH EISENBERG For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cut... DEBORAH EISENBERG I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I wa... DEBORAH EISENBERG I had no thought of being a writer. I never wanted to do anything. I'm tremendously lazy. DEBORAH EISENBERG I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses. DEBORAH EISENBERG I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient. DEBORAH EISENBERG We're all walking around trying to deal with a certain amount of shame, to repress it. And we re... DEBORAH EISENBERG I just want to be on my own branch twittering. DEBORAH EISENBERG I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a ... DEBORAH EISENBERG I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk... DEBORAH EISENBERG It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more... DEBORAH EISENBERG I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both b... DEBORAH EISENBERG I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we're rather arbitrarily divided... DEBORAH EISENBERG The first story I wrote was called 'Days,' and I have very little affection for it. DEBORAH EISENBERG I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very activel... DEBORAH EISENBERG I actually came to New York because it was very tolerant. You know, it seems preposterous, ludicrous... DEBORAH EISENBERG Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de fa... DEBORAH EISENBERG I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about... DEBORAH EISENBERG I would like to never ever think about any political issues. DEBORAH EISENBERG The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is ... DEBORAH EISENBERG Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all f... DEBORAH EISENBERG Fiction is a report from the interior. DEBORAH EISENBERG DEBORAH SAMPSON Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end. DEBORAH MOGGACH It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think ... DEBORAH MOGGACH Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that l... DEBORAH MOGGACH It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relativ... DEBORAH BULL I did have a go with Botox, but I couldn't move my eyebrows. I also, at one point, had that fill... DEBORAH MOGGACH DEBORAH REBER DEBORAH DAY DEBORAH DAY DEBORAH DAY DEBORAH KERR DEBORAH NORVILLE I'm a professional non-fiction reader, that's what I do. But in my 20s we had our own vampir... DEBORAH HARKNESS DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH SAMPSON DEBORAH SAMPSON DEBORAH RANEY DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE Motherhood is wonderful, but it's also hard work. It's the logistics more than anything. You... DEBORAH MAILMAN The world belongs to no one. There are very few people who fit into the world. And part of the strug... DEBORAH EISENBERG My school friends thought I was outgoing and bubbly, but that masked a lot of insecurities, and mayb... DEBORAH MAILMAN DEBORAH SAMPSON The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in clo... DEBORAH COX I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would d... DEBORAH COX I like solitude. I'm very good at being disconnected. I do a lot of disappearing. People who kno... DEBORAH MAILMAN Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for ce... DEBORAH WILES DEBORAH RANEY DEBORAH REBER DEBORAH DAY DEBORAH DAY True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for th... DEBORAH BARNES The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching th... DEBORAH MOGGACH The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working i... DEBORAH MAILMAN The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working i... DEBORAH MAILMAN I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and... DEBORAH MOGGACH DEBORAH SAMPSON DEBORAH SAMPSON DEBORAH SAMPSON Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80... DEBORAH BULL Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns,... DEBORAH KASS DEBORAH NORVILLE When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when... DEBORAH COX It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my... DEBORAH EISENBERG DEBORAH SAMPSON The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you DEBORAH WILES There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us ... DEBORAH HARKNESS DEBORAH SAMPSON I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a probl... DEBORAH ELLIS When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist a... DEBORAH ELLIS Help me Lord be a Light and not a shadow in the darkness of my fears. DEBORAH BRODIE Not understanding something must not turn us away from God, his ways, or purposes; rather it must be... DEBORAH BRODIE What the edge of Truth cuts, the edge of Grace mends. DEBORAH BRODIE Count the cost of everything.DEBORAH BRODIE Start today like a new beginning, and not a repeat. DEBORAH BRODIE It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - ... DEBORAH MOGGACH He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though t... DEBORAH COX There is that idea of seeming crazy when you're seeing spirits or you're seeing dead people,... DEBORAH MAILMAN Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's s... DEBORAH KASS I prefer Princess. I would love to be known as a diva later on in life when I've had far more ex... DEBORAH COX The catheter allows us to bathe the entire abdominal area with a high concentration of chemotherapy ... DEBORAH ARMSTRONG It's the kind of thing you sort of always hope you're going to see. DEBORAH ARMSTRONG It's very good news. A lot of larger institutions have already adopted this approach. At least for t... DEBORAH ARMSTRONG This is a significant improvement in survival for women with this disease, which is most often diagn... DEBORAH ARMSTRONG IP therapy is not a new treatment approach, but it has not been widely accepted as the gold standard... DEBORAH ARMSTRONG We want to make this a model for other communities in the future. DEBORAH ABBOTT The heritage of the state is very agricultural. Re-energizing agriculture is the key to Indiana's ec... DEBORAH ABBOTT The goal is to create a new use for the manure that's surrounding the town ? as a biofuel. DEBORAH ABBOTT The goal is to create a new use for the manure that's surrounding the town ? as a biofuel, DEBORAH ABBOTT My problem is that I want to smoke the cigar and for someone else to light it. I want to blow out sm... DEBORAH LEVY I think differently, I think it's about reaching everybody on every different plane and every di... DEBORAH COX DEBORAH SAMPSON One sees more and more people who are miserable and demented and you feel it would be both kind and ... DEBORAH MOGGACH DEBORAH DAY DEBORAH RANEY DEBORAH NORVILLE Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife... DEBORAH HARKNESS A government that operates under the guise of capitalism does not necessarily mean it is free of the... DEBORAH SIMPSON Ninety percent of board members said they were there to make a difference in the organization. DEBORAH HECHINGER Accessories in general add warmth to a room, but you can switch out your accessories to showcase onl... DEBORAH CARPENTER I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious reade... DEBORAH HARKNESS In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treati... DEBORAH TALL We always see a few orders for wedding invitations with wedding dates around college graduation time... DEBORAH GOMIA DEBORAH SAMPSON U.S. gasoline may be rattling people's cages. We're going to see another steep draw. That, Nigeria a... DEBORAH WHITE I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist,... DEBORAH COX 'Tulip Fever' did change my life. It did that thing that sometimes happens when a book takes... DEBORAH MOGGACH It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, i... DEBORAH MOGGACH It's a very quick place to come in. I'm not going on 21 at lunchtime for anything unless it's a dire... DEBORAH DURHAM They said the wreath is still on the door. DEBORAH ROBERTS DEBORAH SAMPSON The song came out to be a gem, just came out to be a really, really interesting rendition of it. DEBORAH COX
The premiere was very early in the 20th century. The opera is unique in that it presents a different... 
Homosexuality is a decision, it's not a race. People from all ethnic backgrounds live in this lifest... 
Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy. 
began back in the mid-70s when I started my career as a model and began seeing more similarities tha... 
Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I d... 
Men and women belong to different species, and communication between them is a science still in its ... 
Men and women belong to different species, and communication between them is a science still in its... 
The differences between women are all cosmetic. 
There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no di... 
One thing I struggled with early in my career was the delicate balance between my performance and my... 
I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And ... 
I often say my naivete early on in my career worked in my favor. 
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days. 
If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between me... 
There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature. 
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but betwe... 
There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion o... 
There is no difference between fundamental research and applied research. Although this is my view, ... 
As the daydreams grew longer, the distinction between what was real and what was imaginary grew less... 
I think all races are represented in America much more than in many other places, but it's also ... 
The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different conti... 
I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politic... 
In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. 
In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of... 
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from th... 
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. 
I looked from one to the other, and realized that Barrons and my dad were having one of those wordle... 
My whole interest in food grew from my interest in gardens and the question of how we engage with th... 
There is a fundamental difference between men and women - women need romance, men need intrigue. 
I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic. 
I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting... 
As I saw it, 
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In short, between men and women you want..."
There are women in my closet, hanging on the hangers. a different woman for each suit, each dress, e... 
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My doctor asked me how many golf balls I had hit in my career. I'm lying there in bed calculatin... 
The "war" is being fought along the line between sin and righteousness in every family. It is being ... 
If you must know, my parents came from pretty hardscrabble backgrounds in the southern Midwest. I ce... 
My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return t... 
The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life to... 
I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big i... 
I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that yo... 
The differences between us as actors, Reese and I, seem to play out between us in our parts, ... I c... 
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but ... 
I have had my labor for my travail; ill-thought-on of her, and
ill-thought-on of you; gone between ... 
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Pink makes me feel both young and old. There is no in between. 
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We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken. 
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Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky 
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As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded. 
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