Erma Bombeck Quotes
In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
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When it comes to boys and her weight, I think Ellenor is much more conservative than I am, and she has not had the dialogue I have had about my weight.
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Tears at times have the weight of speech.
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My weight has always been a struggle for me.
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If you look at me, I'm very tall but I'm not huge or muscular. I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.
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I am vegetarian. I have a sweet tooth, so I try and avoid desserts. I binge maybe once a month. I eat every two hours, whether it is a Marie biscuit or just a slice of apple. As a result, my metabolism has improved, and this is a huge contributor to weight loss.
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I've tried several diets over the past couple of years – not because I need to lose weight, but because my pants are trying to cut me in two.
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People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.
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Ever since I was little, I loved to eat. I started eating when I wasn't hungry. My weight has always been up and down.
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There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to bend beneath the heavy blows of a great adversity. The palm-tree grows best beneath a ponderous weight, even so the character of man. There is no merit in it, it is a law of psychology. The petty pangs of small daily cares have often bent the character of men, but great misfortunes seldom. There is less danger in this than in great good luck.
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It required 85 parts by weight of oxygen and 15 parts of hydrogen to compose 100 parts of water.
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My weight and my pant size are the absolute last thing I'm concerned about. People who talk and judge pregnant women's weight need to get a life!
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When women are excited about a date, they go immediately on a diet, because all women know they are hideously obese.
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Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.
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Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
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Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.
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God created everything by number, weight and measure.
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Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
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I've always made a point of playing parts where weight has nothing to do with it, and not just weight but looks. It's about being funny and being interesting, and I think there are a lot more interesting things to play than being overweight.
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... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.
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Rock and roll has always been very basic. The actual relationship between a man and a woman is different for everyone on the planet. One of the truest forms of contact is singing about boy-meets-girl. I can strut like a peacock on stage, but that's about as far as it goes. It's up to other people to see what they see. We're not overtly sexual in the sense that we go around wearing codpieces.
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What is a photograph? For me, a fragment of quick-silver, a lucid dream, a scribbled note from the subconscious to be deciphered, perhaps, over years. It is a monologue trying to become a conversation, an offering, an alibi, a salute.
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My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often.
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In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
