"Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's"

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Deborah Tannen

#Underestimate Quotes #Overestimate Quotes

“When you write the story of two happy lovers, let the story be set on the banks of Lake Como.”
“I do all the better bears.”
“My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.”
“The propensity to swindle grows parallel with the propensity to speculate during a boom the implosion of an asset price bubble always leads to the discovery of frauds and swindles”
“Religion is nothing else but love of God and man.”
“Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview With Laura Potter, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2009.
“In my house every Sunday, everybody was cleaning the house. There was always music, and everybody was dancing, sometimes naked around the house. Not hippie, but very free.”
“Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand,-- One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery!”

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