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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It's a cool feeling to see how far my music has been spreading.
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I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.
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I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessarily good for us. We could recognise universal propensities which current cultures can't fully eradicate, which we would want to eradicate if we could. Let's say, a tendency for tribal violence. Or racism.
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There are a lot of health care providers in this country who have a very deep sense of service and compassion for the suffering of others, who are motivated to go to West Africa despite the risks of infection and death. And doctors and nurses face those risks every day regardless of their setting.
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I grew up around music. My father was a professional musician. We used to have a trailer house that we travelled in. I've always loved music. Started out loving to sing to the standards and songs of the early 50s, then that interest shifted to rock and roll, Motown, folk.
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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.
