Erma Bombeck Quotes
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
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My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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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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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I'd never hurt another person.
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I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.
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I got irritated with people asking us the same questions. Like, 'Are you a real band?' Journalists wanted to slay us, tried to cut us down, and I just started caring less and less about doing interviews. With Facebook and Instagram, you kind of don't need to anyway. But now and again, we'll do something when there's new information to share.
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I remember when I got into Juilliard - which was just crazy to me, that I would be studying at a school like that - the choice to cut all my hair off was really symbolic for me.
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There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.
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I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson; I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder, and I'm the only one that leads Hillary Clinton in five states that were won by President Obama. I'm a different kind of Republican.
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I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.
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I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishment from God. I understand that a lot of young mothers probably wouldn't know what to do in that situation, but over your life you learn to forgive everything.
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I had a style before I was signed, but now I'm developing my commercial sound as well as trying to strike a balance between authentic music and music that the masses will love.
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I think parents are probably really excited for their kids and want to give them everything. But there should be a limit on how much you give your kids. Because kids are quite creative, especially at a young age when they don't really know what rules are.
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You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.
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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
