Erma Bombeck Quotes
Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.
Erma Bombeck
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I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.
Sam Sheppard
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
Caleb Landry Jones
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My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.
Kaniehtiio Horn
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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.
Barack Obama
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Fame hasn't really affected me. I have a really close knit group around me, and my sister is always with me, so it's like a bit of a travelling circus.
Laura Mvula
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I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.
Nate Berkus
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I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.
Samantha Morton
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My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.
Dana Hill
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Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.
Karl Kraus
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I spent a whole year in New York without going back to France. And I always came back because my mother was living in New York since I was 13. So I went to summer camps, hang out at the Roxy, go to class for ballet, so I always had part of my life in New York.
Vincent Cassel
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A lot of women say to me, 'You know, I really hated you because my kids wanted you to be their mother.'
Florence Henderson
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In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.
Padma Lakshmi
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'Oh, hello,' Dr. M says, shaking Balder's hand. 'Wonderful costume. I'm a bit of a role player myself on the weekends. Tell me, where did you get the helmet?' 'It was forged in the North, blessed by the hands of Odin, given to me by my mother, Frigg,' Balder answers. 'Lovely. I got mine on the Internet.'
Libba Bray
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My mother was incredibly strict, especially when we moved to New York. Compared with most of the American parents, who seemed so relaxed with their children, my mother was virtually a dictator.
Mark Ronson
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In 'Twice Born' I play my character in her 20s, 30s and 50s. For the fifty year old scenes, I had some prosthetics; it was interesting to see how I'm going to look when I'm fifty-five or so. I actually saw similarities between my grandmothers and my mother.
Penelope Cruz
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I think 'The Avengers' is a Black Widow movie. She saves the day. And if you take her out, the plot does not function.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.
Robert Frost
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Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.
Erma Bombeck
