Erma Bombeck Quotes
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My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
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You don't pass up roles that give you the opportunity to stretch and to grow.
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It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind.
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The government is determined to bring the program back on track, and proceed with the privatizations.
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People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.
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I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
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I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show 'Nanny 911' occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.
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I studied voice and piano as a child, although, at least with voice, you start over at puberty, because your voice completely changes.
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I felt my country should do more for its children. Its children are not born gangsters. In fact, they have in them the potential to be heroes because most of the kids who are in these gangs are leaders, very charismatic and good organizers.
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“Politics is a word spelled N-O-W.”
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Grandparenthood is one of life's rewards for surviving your own children.
