Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
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Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.
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We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
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God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
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When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon.
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Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.
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As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.
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I study a lot of philosophy. I want to be an example of how to enjoy this success, and that's exactly what I've done. I've enjoyed every moment.
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Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done.
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When it comes to making laws that protect the public from the financial services industry, Congress has done a progressively worse job since the Pecora Commission hearings of the early 1930s, which led to Congress taking bold steps to regulate banking and securities firms in 1933 and 1934.
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I compete in a sport on an individual basis, but I have never done it for me.
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'Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.
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The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.
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The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.
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There's something very visceral about watching people beg for money. It's powerful.
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I don't think the West needs to apologize - or pay - for having invented the steam engine.
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I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.
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I don't think about the future. It sort of will take care of itself; there's not really much that I can do other than fundamental things like taking care of my voice, keeping to my exercise routine, and getting some rest.
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Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.
