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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Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job.
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My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.
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Speeches are much easier if you read them. I just find when I do that, it's harder to fire up the crowd.
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Most of us tend to be swayed by what we read. Judges are not superhuman. They, too, are mortals. This is why they have to be exceptionally careful in rendering decisions, which cause unintended consequences.
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You lose so many material possessions being on the road. You can't get too attached to stuff and you have to remember that people must never become possessions. People are spheres intersecting. You have to make sure that one sphere doesn't ever take over the other. Individuality is absolutely the most important thing.
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When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
