Erma Bombeck Quotes
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As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.
Viktor Orban -
I want to play interesting women.
Rachel Weisz -
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.
Walter Cronkite -
You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'
Adam McKay -
Acting was something I had to do.
Nancy Marchand -
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.
Halima Aden
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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.
Caitlin Moran -
I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.
Olympia Dukakis -
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
Samuel Johnson -
In the vacant places We will build with new bricks
T. S. Eliot -
The experience of the world is worth more than the experience of any one man.
E. W. Howe -
Heroes and victims are the product of the mood they were in when opportunity came or when circumstances were at their worst.
Orson Scott Card
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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.
Garth Brooks -
I am not a collector of deserts!
Benito Mussolini -
Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove.
Ralph Ellison -
A veces, de noche, enciendo una luz, para no ver.
Antonio Porchia -
I have written a considerable amount - both fiction and nonfiction - about the Caribbean. My love for this part of the world is centered on a deep admiration for its people - a people who are both tough and romantic, dreamers and cynics, people who face a thousand defeats and are never defeated.
Mark Kurlansky -
The human family has invaluable friends and irreplaceable allies in the plant and animal worlds. We cannot continue to tug at the web of life without tearing a hole in the very fabric of our earthly existence - and eventually falling through that hole ourselves.
Van Jones
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Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.
Marcus Aurelius -
Know, dear little one! our FatherWill no gentle deed disdain:Love on the cold earth beginningLives divine in Heaven again,While the angel hearts that beat thereStill all tender thoughts retain.
Adelaide Anne Procter -
Pianists call me a composer, composers call me a pianist. The classicists think me a futurist, and the futurists call me a reactionary.
Anton Rubinstein -
The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.
Phillip E. Johnson -
Poached eggs are good, poached animals are not.
Erma Bombeck