Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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I come home from trying to pretend to know about astronomy and physics all day and turn on 'The Real Housewives'.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.
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Peace with justice means free enterprise that unleashes the talents and creativity that reside in each of us; in other models, direct economic growth from the top down or relies solely on the resources extracted from the earth. But we believe that real prosperity comes from our most precious resource - our people.
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Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.
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Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps;And pyramids are pyramids in vales.Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;Her monuments shall last when Egypt’s fall.
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The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.
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We've always had our hardcore fans. But the general public has a love-hate thing about the 'Kinks.' It always leaves people with a question mark on their heads.
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If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
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If you put the collections together, whether it's Rick Owens, Alexander Wang, or whomever, sometimes they do streetwear, but they're never called that. They're always called 'sportswear' or 'high-end' or 'luxury.' I feel like I'm tossed into that streetwear category so that I don't exist in this space.
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There was a time I thought about being a professional guide. I'm a big outdoorsman, but the acting thing has always been there - always something I wanted to do.
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Volleyball was a lot of fun, but I knew it wasn't my sport.
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I got caught stealing when I was a kid from the local bodega right across the street from where we lived. I tried to steal a big bag of Red Hot Dollars. And I swear, I was about 7 years old and the bag was bigger'n me.
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Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.
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We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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Written on her tombstone: "I told you I was sick.
