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 was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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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 to clean my room and unload the dishwasher, wash the pans, and feed the dogs.
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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 think there are only two kinds of heroes: the flamboyant ones and the angry-yet-silent types. Every character on TV falls into either category.
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All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.
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We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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My mother had abandoned the family, so grandmother raised me. And she was instrumental in that she taught me that the world is a glorious place. She taught me to embrace humanity. And she'd say there's never an excuse for joy. And to be thankful.
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Sundays are for Dim Sum. While the rest of America goes to church, Sunday School, or NFL games, you can find Chinese people eating Cantonese food.
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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.
