Erma Bombeck Quotes
When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.
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Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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I only have room to do things that I have a love for in my life.
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My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.
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I've got a full plate, yes I do. That iPod, that's nice. A phone recorder? Nicely done. All right I'm a bit of a tech geek. I have a subscription to Popular Science and I keep up on all this stuff.
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I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.
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It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.
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What I'm interested in is how your career choices can affect your private life, romantically or with your mom, your relatives, your friends, your hometown, and how media manipulates information - not newspapers or blogs, but the magazines that people impulse-buy that tell you what's hot and who's not.
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The United States Supreme Court has voted 6-3 that voter photo ID is constitutional.
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I was very impressed with the scope and scale and impact that came from originally one person making 'Minecraft.' It's inspiring for me to think how our team can do more with less.
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Nothing is cut while I'm shooting. I edit between nine months and a year, and usually have around 80 hours of footage I have to get down to an 82-minute movie.
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My job is to generate discussion.
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I've made it clear I like Chicago.
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Men could not think of THE ALMOST PERFECT STATE if they did not have it in them ultimately to create THE ALMOST PERFECT STATE.
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You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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I love each of my kids in unique ways and try to meet their different needs so they can thrive and be their personal best.
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I have three stepfamilies as well as my family of origin. I've had to adjust to them and also go back and forth among them. I became an observer of human nature because when you are in those situations you have to be.
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When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.
