Erma Bombeck Quotes
I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal.
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When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.
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If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.
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You've made love to my mind, now you gotta take me from behind.
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Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren't alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump. Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don't. That's partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible - Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.
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The biggest fool to hit the big time and all I've got to do is act naturally.
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The power of propaganda is to say something enough times that it becomes the Big Lie.
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I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.
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Those who follow are always behind.
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I'm a big Letterman fan.
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Always get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start.
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I'm not a big disco guy. Some of that English techno-poppy stuff wouldn't get me in the mood either.
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I'm a big follower and reactor to weather.
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Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills
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I'm a big fan of money. I like it, I use it, I have a little. I keep it in a jar on top of my refrigerator. I'd like to put more in that jar. That's where you come in.
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But I wondered, how would I feel about killing someone? Now I know. It’s no big deal.
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If your dreams don't scare you, you aren't dreaming big enough.
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Maybe you think, ‘I’m not college material.’ Maybe you worry that you don’t have the money. Then you take the SAT. You see that colleges are getting in touch with you. You begin to think maybe you are ready for college.
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In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.
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Whenever you think that you are getting too big for the people around you, remember all that separates you from the guy sitting next to you is a little piece of gristle in your throat.
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Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons.
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You look after yourself. You believe in God. And if people want to drag you down, you fight that, and you keep on fighting.
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I actually think that Bandbox, by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.
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I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal.
