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.
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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.
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It's tough, but you learn your lesson from all the mistakes you make.
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I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.
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It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.
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Center is a very tough position to play.
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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.
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If you don't have good horses, it's very tough to win.
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I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.
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It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!'
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It's tough campaigning, kissing hands and shaking babies.
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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.
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I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.
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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.
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I'd be stupid not to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ because it was tough out there and I was nervous, and I felt his presence all day.
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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.
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The only tough thing is admitting to my wife how much a certain article of clothing costs.
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Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.
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Churches may decay and perish; riches may make themselves wings and fly away-but he who builds their happiness on Christ crucified and union with Him by faith, that person is standing on a foundation which shall never be moved, and will know something of true peace.
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Growing up biracial, I didn't have someone to look up to watching TV or movies. Halle Berry was the closest one who looked like me. I'm happy to see more biracial people on screen, and I'm happy to represent for the little girls who didn't have someone who looked like me on TV.
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I never really felt I had the same respect as my male team-mates. My opinion wasn't worth as much. I used to sit quietly in meetings and not say anything, as I knew my opinions would be disregarded. And that's after I had become Olympic champion and multiple world champion.
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Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
