Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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.
Patrick Modiano -
I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
Yo-Yo Ma -
If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.
Adam Cohen -
Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.
Wendy Davis -
In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
Victor Kiam
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If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.
Eckhart Tolle -
I was really fat in school.
Dacre Montgomery -
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
Jackson Pollock -
It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful.
Ed Belfour -
The world is changing very profoundly.
Fareed Zakaria -
Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
Fernando Pessoa
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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
Anthony Trollope -
My job is to do. My job is to make women beautiful. What do I have to say?
Alber Elbaz -
Now that the day of reckoning has arrived, they cry socialism!
Elizabeth A. Sherman -
Being an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef, there's nothing traditional about my Thanksgiving spread.
Marcus Samuelsson -
I went from living in a house with five guys in Palo Alto, and living off their leftovers, to all of a sudden having all kinds of resources. And I wanted to figure out how I could take the blessing of these resources and share it with the world.
Jeffrey Skoll -
My policy is I will help any policymaker who asks, whether they be a Republican or a Democrat.
Mark Zandi
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Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.
Jonas Salk -
I do not believe in my death.
Salvador Dali -
I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
Q'orianka Kilcher -
It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.
Ian Mcewan -
Reality is everywhere, and to find It 'you' must first disappear.
H. W. L. Poonja -
A child develops individuality long before he develops taste.
Erma Bombeck