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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There's a tremendous amount of work building the apparatus, getting the experiment to work. But sitting there late at night in the lab, and knowing light is going at bicycle speed, and that nobody in the history of mankind has ever been here before - that is mind-boggling. It's worth everything.
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It never occurs to me that acting with a superstar is something to worry about. I figure the bigger the better because more will be demanded of me.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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My family was very Halloween-friendly, for all of the religion and whatever was going on.
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Never accept a drink from a urologist.
