Erma Bombeck Quotes
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
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Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.
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I've been very selective in what I did and didn't do.
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.
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You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then... you go your own way.
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We're not a family. We're the opposite of a family. We're people so lonely that when we're together we make a black hole of loneliness and everything else gets sucked down into it and is never seen again.
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We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.
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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
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If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
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Being in combat is not unending high-five moments.
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Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.
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All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
