Erma Bombeck Quotes
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As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.
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I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
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I want to play interesting women.
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But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.
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Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.
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You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'
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Acting was something I had to do.
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I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.
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I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.
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I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.
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To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
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In the vacant places We will build with new bricks
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The experience of the world is worth more than the experience of any one man.
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Heroes and victims are the product of the mood they were in when opportunity came or when circumstances were at their worst.
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Standing outside the fire;Standing outside the fire.Life is not tried, it is merely survivedIf you're standing outside the fire.
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I am not a collector of deserts!
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I get offered so many bad movies. And they're all raging queens or transvestites or Martians.
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O strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain!
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A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of us and far more dangerous to peace and stability.
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As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.
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The reason I keep acting is that it fuels some kind of passion in me, but the day that those butterflies stop, is the day that I'm gonna quit because I could care less about the magazines or being famous or the money or the awards.
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Poached eggs are good, poached animals are not.
