Erma Bombeck Quotes
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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The movies were custard compared to politics.
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My mother's proud of where she's from, and her history, and her past, and same with my dad. I have roots in Africa. Like, I am from Africa as well as from Germany, and I am very proud of that.
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Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.
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This is how I feel about the LGBT community: they are people just like us.
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I think the best endings bring you back in rather than close things off with absolute finality. I'm not saying they necessarily have to be ambiguous, but we don't always need to know what happens when everyone wakes up tomorrow morning.
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The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among people. No one should be too rich.
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The adrenaline feeling of jumping out of cliffs and bikes and all of that is very specific to the film. In 'Pac Rim' I'm not doing that so much. There isn't that touch stonework for me in it, but there is a lot of action.
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The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.
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I'm just going out there to do my role, the same role - defense first - and then see how the ball turns out on the offensive end.
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I don't see such a huge difference between online and 'in real life'. I think it has now become one and the same.
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If you say, 'I don't want to offend anyone,' then don't get on stage. Just ask yourself, 'Do I think it is right? Do I think it is offensive? And do I think that everyone is okay to hear this? If I truly believe this, then I should go and do this.'
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I have a hard time seeing the balance in the Senate bill because it unilaterally disarms one side. And I think there are some inherent flaws, some constitutional flaws in the Senate bill.
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Will Rogers wasn't helpful to me at all. He was just concerned with his way of doing things. He didn't like me much because I used to wear slacks to the studio, and that was not done much in those days, so I guess he thought I was rather fast.
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The ban on assault weapons was a good and necessary law that was allowed to lapse through the influence of special interests.
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Whether it's coming from FDR or it's coming from Ronald Reagan, if the idea is right for the times then we're gonna apply it. And things that don't work we're gonna get rid of.
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Much of the blame for the Great Recession lies with abuses in the housing market - namely the creation of risky and unsustainable home loans that were packaged and sold as quality investments around the globe.
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Housework can kill you if done right.
