Erma Bombeck Quotes
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I usually travel with a posse. I roll deep. I travel like a rapper, but without the artillery. We don't carry guns, we carry cookies.
Gabriel Iglesias -
Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.
Queen Latifah -
It's tough, but you learn your lesson from all the mistakes you make.
Pablo Sandoval -
I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.
Yancy Butler -
It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.
Victor LaValle -
Center is a very tough position to play.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.
Adam Grant -
If you don't have good horses, it's very tough to win.
Facundo Pieres -
I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.
Sam Kinison -
It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!'
Gabby Douglas -
It's tough campaigning, kissing hands and shaking babies.
Pat Paulsen -
I know that there's a god because I was able to survive everything that I've been through - all of the tough times - and I'm still at the top of my game.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.
Larry David -
Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.
Nate Silver -
My training has always been really tough. I've always worked hard. I've always been very committed to my training and focused on my workout.
Daniel Cormier -
The only tough thing is admitting to my wife how much a certain article of clothing costs.
Taye Diggs -
Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.
Kamala Harris -
That three-foot putt is tough for me right now! I'm not making too many putts.
J. R. Smith
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The key was to play tough defense on them. We know they're a talented, offensively skilled team. It was all about protecting the paint, making them shoot contested jump shots and giving them one chance at the rim.
Eddie Charles Jones -
My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
J. Paul Getty -
My dad died in May of '97. The effects of his death immediately were not all that hard, but a year or two later it hit, when my job as Dad was sort of done and I was sending my kids to college. And somehow, the emotional intensity of that event mixed with the loss of my own dad, was kind of upsetting.
Wayne Watson -
We do not want to turn our back on Spain. It's the opposite. We are convinced that a relationship between equals will improve our relationship.
Carles Puigdemont -
I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter.
Larry Holmes -
When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
Erma Bombeck