Erma Bombeck Quotes
Those magazine dieting stories always have the testimonial of a woman who wore a dress that could slipcover New Jersey in one photo and thirty days later looked like a well-dressed thermometer.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.
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My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.
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People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
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In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.
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I'm an affectionate person.
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There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.
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Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.
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There is less in this than meets the eye.
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Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.
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Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.
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Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.
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No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne.
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I've been a fan of 'The Defenders' since childhood, and Devil Slayer was always one of my favorite members of the team - especially during J.M. DeMatteis' wonderful run on the series.
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Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised.
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My friends always joke that I run on batteries.
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Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.
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Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving.
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For me, the food is most excited in 'Top Chef Mexico', I get to try it all. My mouth waters just thinking about it.
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Those magazine dieting stories always have the testimonial of a woman who wore a dress that could slipcover New Jersey in one photo and thirty days later looked like a well-dressed thermometer.
