Erma Bombeck Quotes
You become about as exciting as your food blender. The kids come in, look you in the eye, and ask if anybody's home.

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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack.
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What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?
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I hate feeling like a prisoner. I show up somewhere, and I can't explore the city because there's, like, 6,000 to 10,000 people on the lookout for me.
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Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown.
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Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.
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I don't think she [Marilyn Monroe] saw herself as victimized and a sex object. She knew how to contend with it. I'm sure she was no fool about it. On the one hand, it was very flattering and great; on the other hand, it was probably awful and could be very lascivious and very terrible. But I think a lot of women just wanted to be like her. And that's still true today.
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The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).
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You become about as exciting as your food blender. The kids come in, look you in the eye, and ask if anybody's home.