Deborah Quotes

Why can I not fight for my country too?

You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.

Don't expect anything from anybody, work hard, put your head down, be good at what you do and good stuff will happen.

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

I picked up the Joss Stone album, Josh Groban, and the new Norah Jones. I love, love, love Norah.

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives... So train the whole person, not just the dancer.

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don't feel like it because language can make your world a better place to live.

Never forget those who believed in you. They are why you are where you are.

Look in the mirror and see who you are. Beautiful, you are.

Evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of any relaitonship is your responsibility. You do not have to passively accept what is brought to you. You can choose.

All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.

We cannot silence the voices that we do not like hearing. We can, however, do everything in our power to make certain that other voices are heard.

We actually are waiting for more people to be killed before we can do something that makes sense. We don't kill enough people in aviation to merit regulatory changes.

I don't think of decorating as a science or a discipline. People always say start with the rug, but it is often the last thing I end up selecting. I begin with whatever makes my heart sing.

True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for those that need your voice, passion, and time without expecting or wanting anything in return.

If a job isn't worth dreaming about, it isn't worth having.

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.

If there was a volcano under their feet, a Vesuvius that could erupt and bury this modern-day Pompeii at any moment, the best thing to do was dance on it.

Flexibility requires an open mind and a welcoming of new alternatives.

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

A passion for learning...isn't something you have to inspire with; it's something you have to keep from extinguishing.

Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.

I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.

Life is full of surprises, but the biggest one of all is learning what it takes to handle them.

It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.

I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.

In the 1970′s I made horses out of real mud and sticks. They were, in part, meant to reflect how much a horse is part of his environment. I combined the figure and the ground.

Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication

You persist in this romantic vision of what it is to be a vampire, but despite my best efforts to curb it I have a taste for blood.

I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good.

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has

Many men honestly do not know what women want, and women honestly do not know why men find what they want so hard to comprehend and deliver.

A thankful outlook smoothes the rough edges off life.

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.

I adore not being me. I'm not very good at being me. That's why I adore acting so much.

Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.

Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort.

You don't have to be like anyone else. You just need to learn more about your own creative self and start blooming.

I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes.

Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.

Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict.

Teaching is listening, learning is talking

The desire for freedom and independence becomes more of an issue for many men in relationships, whereas interdependence and connection become more of an issue for many women.

Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all.

More men feel comfortable doing "public speaking," while more women feel comfortable doing "private" speaking.

Civility is the art and act of caring for others.