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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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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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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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'd never looked at our house, or even our side of the street, and said, Oh! I wish we lived in the new development-those houses are so much newer, so much better! This is where I'd grown up. This was my home.
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The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
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I've always been that person who's struggled to find a swimsuit that I love.
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I was an early adopter of everything from Myspace to Twitter, and I think they're just fads, like CB radio.
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A lot of kids do look up to us. But there are just as many elderly people to put us down.
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The onlooker had better wipe the sympathy off his face. What he has seen is a revolution, not the home of little cogs and drones. What he has seen is the dormitory of the next managerial class.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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Whenever I do my concerts, I try to do master classes or students.
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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.
