Erma Bombeck Quotes
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
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I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.
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It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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I love badminton. That's my sport!
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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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Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.
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The GOP used to be united on a traditionalist view of social and moral issues.
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The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.
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I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.
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The world we live in pictures a pie with only so many pieces, and if other people have more you have less, and you have to compete with other people in order to try to get ahead. You have to sell yourself at every available opportunity. The shift, the enlightened shift, has to do with a movement from competition to collaboration, from sales to service, from ambition to inspiration, and to a belief in scarcity to a belief in abundance as an eternal spiritual quality.
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The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you. You can never be happy living someone else's dream. Live your own. And you will for sure know the meaning of happiness.
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Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.
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No genuine observer can decide otherwise than that the homes of a nation are the bulwarks of personal and national safety and thrift.
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My mind works . . . two boobs never get me a job.
