"All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence."

-- Deborah Tannen

#Doe Quotes #Recognition Quotes #Conversation Quotes

“We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that we are queens, and the fact that we are subjects.”
“I'm the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don't really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought to be dead.”
“I disagree with the advice of 'write about what you know.' Write about what you need to know, in an effort to understand.”
“There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.”
“Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.”
“Only by zealously guarding the rights of the most humble, the most unorthodox, and the most despised among us can freedom flourish and endure in our land.”
“I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When I was young what made me really want to be a rapper was when I saw MC Lyte.”

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