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About Deborah Tannen
American author and linguist
Deborah Tannen is an American author and linguist, associated with Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She is best known for You Just Don't Understand, and has 105 quotes on the site. She has also served as a McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University. Her work and academic roles place her in the study of language and communication, especially the ways people understand one another.
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- “I was one of those daughters who saw my mother as my enemy when I was a teen.”Deborah Tannen
- “My writing is about connecting ways of talking to human relationships. My purpose is to show that linguistics…”Deborah Tannen
- “If you talk to your friends the way your parents talk, they will think you are stiff and odd.”Deborah Tannen
Debt: more sayings
- “College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down wi…”Peter Thiel
- “Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.”Simone Weil
- “It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants…”Patrick Henry
Faith: more sayings
- “Religion is not the place where the problem of man's egotism is automatically solved. Rather, it is there tha…”Langdon Brown Gilkey
- “Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.”George W. Bush
- “When Jesus isn’t our everything, our enough, we pursue every other thing that fills.”Mary E. DeMuth