Erma Bombeck Quotes
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Quotes to Explore
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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I like to improvise.
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch.
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm a news journalist by background, so I approach everything as reporting - I treat it as real, I ask the questions I'd ask in a real situation, and I let the characters speak for themselves.
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We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.
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My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, 'Don't do it in earshot of any adults, or you're in trouble.'
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How do you let go of attachment to things? Don't even try. It's impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.
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In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
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I like to feel occupied.
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I was a very shy child.
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The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.
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I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
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I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.
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I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.
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I characterize myself a little bit as a reluctant filmmaker. I learned from watching my friend in college stay up late at night, at 2 A.M., just to get the lighting right, and I thought, 'You know what, if that's what it's going to be like, I think I'm just going to write,' and I did that.
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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
