Erma Bombeck Quotes
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
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Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
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How many women in this world are served breakfast in bed every morning by a gorgeous young man? I am. So how do I feel about older age? Crazy about it! Wouldn't trade it for anything!
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Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
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My dad was a great guy; my mother was wonderful. I was very lucky to be around music from the time I woke up until I went to bed.
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I loved being in Cambridge. I think about it often. It was this great little capsule of time to me.
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I am not easy to break through to. There is a protective shield that I have built psychologically. I am not open to everyone as I have been to ones those who have broken through me. But once you break through, I will love anything that you do.
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I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.
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No one in my family had ever done anything acting-wise or entertainment industry-wise.
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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
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The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that.
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Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.
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Women have always been a good influence on me.
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Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem.
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Amateur wrestling, you can go by instinct. Pro wrestling, you have to memorize, and you have to go by what moves you said you were going to do. Sometimes you have to feel the crowd and do the moves at the right time and know the timing and tell a good story.
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I'm not really very ambitious.
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Even though I am smiling, I have some suffering in my heart.
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I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I've always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.
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I keep three framed photographs on my desk: the latest school picture of my daughter; a photo of my wife getting her diploma from the University of Chicago; and Lytton Strachey, looking serenely self-possessed.
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Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.
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I think quotes are very dangerous things.
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But I tell you, I would really be interested if there was a partner we could take in, that could put them over here on the side, that would allow us full leverage and access down the road.
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A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
