Erma Bombeck Quotes
Most children's first words are 'Mama' or 'Daddy.' Mine were, 'Do I have to use my own money?'
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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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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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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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I turned down 'Forrest Gump.'
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My sisters are very academically inclined so whenever they would fix me up, it would always be from someone in their world, people they would find attractive. When they came to the door in suits, it was over.
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I never dreamt to be a princess in my life; I really dreamt to be an actress, but I dreamt of princesses on screen.
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You always hope for the best when you put something out and try to make the best music you can make, but you can't control what happens after that.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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In the fields of southwest Iowa, my parents and grandparents worked and sacrificed. Like so many Iowans, the American Dream for them was never about wealth or fame. Their dream was to leave their children and grandchildren a better life, with greater opportunity, than their own.
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Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
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There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.
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Most children's first words are 'Mama' or 'Daddy.' Mine were, 'Do I have to use my own money?'
