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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'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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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 can wash people in the water all we want, but we can never wash their parents out of their hearts.
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The rainy Pleiads wester,Orion plunges prone,The stroke of midnight ceases,And I lie down alone.
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Start with a shovel, wind up with a spoon
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Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but a mange eating away at you, it is nothing but an exile.
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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had.
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We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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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.
