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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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 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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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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Every restaurant needs to have a point of view.
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I'm theatrically trained. Before Vine, before any of the social media, I was an actor. I was going to auditions; I was taking the classes.
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When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy. It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money. War is our century's prostitution.
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I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny.
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I'm still compulsively interested in women. It's funny, I've always compulsively photographed women. I still do.
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The beautiful thing about stand-up is you can create and immediately deliver, perform, and get paid for what you do.
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Never accept a drink from a urologist.
