Erma Bombeck Quotes
Most children's first words are 'Mama' or 'Daddy.' Mine were, 'Do I have to use my own money?'
Quotes to Explore
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.
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One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.
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I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.
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Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvenate failing businesses, which are major drivers of job growth in this economy.
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People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.
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I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
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A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.
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I still define myself by the places that I've been.
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When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.
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Life is not a thing of knowing only - nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.
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In these finalists, we have sought designs that represent the heights of imagination while incorporating aesthetic grace and spiritual strength.
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The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
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I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
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It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn through play, master social skills and prepare for formal schooling.
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Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again.
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Most children's first words are 'Mama' or 'Daddy.' Mine were, 'Do I have to use my own money?'
