Erma Bombeck Quotes
Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
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Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.
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You can grow apart from people very quickly.
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When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a miracle.
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Hate was nothing that IT didn't have. IT knew all about hate.
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That's the whole part of playing football and having training camp. Coming in and recognizing how players play.
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Cats and dogs are a very good window into the natural world: a chance to see how another species lives and deals with its problems, what they like and what they don't like.
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History is one damn thing after another.
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We are sticking with the plan. We have a plan to get taxes down, to get regulation down, to get productivity up, to create jobs, to reduce taxes, to boost prosperity. The plan is working and we are sticking with it.
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There are two places where I can completely relax: in nature and by the piano.
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I loved all awards shows growing up, but of course, the Oscars was the biggest one.
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What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.
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I don't believe that the policies on which we fought the 1983 election ought to be ejected like some sort of spent cartridge.
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You know how mountains get moved? Everyone who can move a couple, move a couple. Those who can move rocks, move rocks. Those who can move boulders, move boulders. That's how mountains get moved. If every one of us did everything we could, I believe we would be in a different world.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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So I go to the long adventure, lifting My face to the far, mysterious goals, To the last assize, to the final sifting Of gods and stars and souls.
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I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.
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How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet; now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Memory slept.
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Yeah, I was in the show. I was in the show for 21 days once - the 21 greatest days of my life. You know, you never handle your luggage in the show, somebody else carries your bags. It was great. You hit white balls for batting practice, the ballparks are like cathedrals, the hotels all have room service, and the women all have long legs and brains.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
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Since I have fair skin, I have to stay out of the sun. I can't stand the sun. I dyed my hair red for a while during the 1990s but I'm actually a natural blonde.
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There's Pele the man, and then Pele the player. And to play like Pele is to play like God.
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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?
