Erma Bombeck Quotes
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
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General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
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I met Kanye. I'm starstruck, man, but I stayed away from that guy. I didn't want him to go on a rant, go off on me. He did it at his wedding.
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It's about not having doubt in your mind and staying focused and not having any preconceived notion about failure. It's just looking forward and staying positive.
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Whatever I ended up picking or choosing was always going to be a creative outlet for me.
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In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
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I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.
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But words - words are not enough!
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I don't believe in messing with mother-nature too much.
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At His Ascension our Lord entered Heaven, and He keeps the door open for humanity to enter.
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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.
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I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.
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Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in the environment that might harm us. So given a dozen news stories, we will preferentially look at the negative news.
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Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.
