Erma Bombeck Quotes
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I love my work but do not know how I write it.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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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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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
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As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
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'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I was playing the main verse part of 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and after a few minutes I got frustrated, as normal, then started to play the other song, and realized they went together.
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We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.
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It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.
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Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.
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To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.
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I'm a smoky eye girl. I love playing with eye colors, metallics... fun stuff!
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I've dated people where we traveled horribly together, and if one thing went wrong, it was horrible for them. Then I've been fortunate enough to have great traveling experiences where everything lined up and even when things went wrong, you just laughed about it. You learn so much about yourself when you're traveling with someone.
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I grew up in a small town in Georgia where nothing bad happened - it was like Mayberry.
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Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.
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My academic specialization is Arab-Israel relations.
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Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.
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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
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'You’ve behaved very highhandedly, Captain Mallory. Is that the custom out here?''The custom is, sir, that those who know a situation handle it and those who don’t watch and learn, or get out of the way.'
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I like dramas. I've always liked dramas. And I'm a pretty light person. I don't consider myself a very dramatic person. But I do like doing that onscreen.
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Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
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I wanted something where I could have the clearest and most unfiltered artistic and creative voice.
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When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
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Never accept a drink from a urologist.
