Erma Bombeck Quotes
My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.
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When I was in college, I used to love to watch football on Sundays.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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I remember the absolute, joyous freedom I felt when I first went to college: I had no bedtime, no curfew, no rules - I loved it. I was in charge. I couldn't believe I didn't have to answer to anyone.
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I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!
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Watching yourself on screen is always a little weird, but I didn't cringe when I saw myself on 'The Hour.' It actually exceeded my expectations; every shot looks like a vintage postcard and even my most brutally honest friends have said they think it's good.
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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I'm tired of being considered property.
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I saw 'Mahogany' and 'Lady Sings the Blues' when I was little and thought, 'That's what I want to do.'
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I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.
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From the Asia Pacific to Africa to the Americas, the United States and our armed forces will remain the greatest force for freedom and security and peace that the world has ever known. That is your legacy. That is what we have to protect, and that is what we have to defend.
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But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.
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Γνώσῃ διδαχθεὶς ὀψὲ γοῦν τὸ σωφρονεῖν.
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I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
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I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.
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I'd done kids' TV in the U.K., but not great kids' TV. So yes, 'Submarine' was the first film and the first good thing that I have done.
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I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
