Erma Bombeck Quotes

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

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• Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.

  

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• A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

  

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• I created my own party. It's called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I'm running as an anarchist candidate in the best sense of that word. I've studied the presidency carefully.

  

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• Compared to running apps on a smartphone or, more aptly, an iPad, the app experience on the Samsung Chromebook Plus is distinctly subpar.

  

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• I'm running because we need change.

  

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• I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.

  

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• A lot of funny stuff happens in Canada.

  

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• It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

  

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• You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it's too much, too much fantasy, and so I am busy with other stuff - it's funny, it's nice to hear that someone is studying that carefully and now I know a little bit more about that.

  

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• It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings. Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose.

  

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• In 'War Party,' I play a quarter-breed Indian. It's a serious movie, but it's funny, too.

  

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• I played football in the fall when I was in high school. Then basketball, a different conditioning - you're running up and down the courts. Then you come into baseball, you're doing a sprint to hit a triple.

  

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• The sky is so clear today you can see all the way to Missouri.

  

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• The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.

  

  Erma Bombeck
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  • Running
  • Reason