Erma Bombeck Quotes
When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
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I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues.
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Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.
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The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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I feel people care so much about their appearance - which is important, and I do still care about my appearance, but not that much. There's far more to life than that.
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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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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Anybody can be a pendejo, said John Grady. That just means asshole.
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Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
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Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.
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I think that we have been able to demonstrate that we cannot just consume software, that we can create software that can be used all over the world, that we have that kind of talent in Africa.
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Women take so long to get ready, but when they get out of the bathroom, they look smokin' hot. That's the struggle of men throughout history, waiting by the door. The wait is so worth it. Always.
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I like the triangle. My first season, the whole first season, we played nothing but the triangle, so I know it pretty well.
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How do we fill the need for technology workers, people who have computer skills and math and science skills? How do we get a more diverse science workforce? These are all issues - I would look at these documents that were from the '50s and '60s and '70s, and you'd swear they were written two weeks ago because the issues are the same.
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The best novel I wrote was one called 'Crusoe's Daughter,' which never won any prizes. But I was getting somewhere in that. I'm not sure I have in any of the others.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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I describe Bitcoin as 'the Skype of money.'
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When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.
