Erma Bombeck Quotes

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.

Erma Bombeck

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• In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Future

• 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.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Science
  • Education
  • Technology

• Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Architecture
  • Building

• People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • People
  • World
  • Water

• The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Times
  • Project
  • Got

• I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.

  

  Vijay
  • People
  • Writing
  • Stop

• The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Me
  • Best
  • Experiences

• At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Time
  • Down
  • Stock

• Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.

  

  Larry King
  • Stories
  • Favorite
  • Les

• Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Business
  • You
  • Politics

• When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a young lad watching films, my eyes were on them - watching 'On the Waterfront,' my eyes are on Rod Steiger and Karl Malden, not on Brando.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Character
  • Think
  • Eyes

• The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Long
  • School
  • She

• I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Always
  • Playing
  • Drunk

• There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • People
  • Life
  • Reality

• I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.'

  

  Irving Azoff
  • Proud
  • Involved
  • Simon

• Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Distance

• Offering unequal leaves just reinforces the longstanding notion that parenting responsibilities aren't equal, and that doesn't help anyone.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • Help

• You can't create chemistry. In fact, the chemistry between two actors is for people to see, sense, and judge. The only thing we can do as actors is to come on board individually because we feel the same kind of passion for a script and for a director to cast us because he feels that, as actors, we'll do justice to that part.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • People
  • Passion
  • Justice

• There was always Helmut Newton coffee table books around when I was growing up.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Coffee

• I think, between the tattoos, the way I dress, the way I talk, people don't think it should go together with a franchise quarterback or someone that's leading the team or representing the organization.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • People
  • Together
  • Team

• Basically, men are afraid of women and can't handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• I feel very keenly the eyes of the foreign media on our country. And I think a lot of Japanese people feel that things are not working the way they should. When the time comes, I will put myself forward.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady.

  

  Amy Sedaris
  • Men
  • Women
  • Pretty

• Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.

  

  Erma Bombeck
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