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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I do cardio. I run. I strength-train using my own body weight. I don't like free weights, because I build muscle easily.
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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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... 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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Force without judgement crashes by its own weight.
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One arranges flowers as the spirit moves you; to obey some inner prompting to put this colour with that, to have brilliance here, line there, a sense of opulence in this place or sparseness in that; to suit your surroundings, your mood, the weather, the occasion. In a word, to do as you please, just as, if you could, you might paint a picture.
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Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.
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When I started, the scripts weren't as good, and you'd have to have a huge burst of energy to go, "Sheesh, how am I going to? This stuff's no good." So you'd have to improvise something or create something or try to work with the ware and try to figure out, how do you make this visually and orally acceptable, entertaining? Nowadays, the scripts are just so much better, that you don't have to feel that way. You feel like the script's coming to you, you can just relax. You don't have to drive the boat.
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In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
