Erma Bombeck Quotes
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no comprehension of what definitely works. And the only gauge that I can go by is, 'This makes me laugh,' and is joyful... I like to, if possible, do things that people can enjoy and it doesn't take anybody down.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.
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Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.
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I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.
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A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.
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I regret all of my books.
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We visited Ravi. We didn't study with him, as such.
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The Tea Party movement is a wide and diverse group. It will hurt the Republican Party if some elements of the Tea Party decide to become third party advocates because it will split the conservative vote.
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I'm tired of being considered property.
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Listen, it's very easy not to be ripped off, you know. Get yourself a lawyer.
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You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.
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I would say, as loving as I am... I am definitely an extremely temperamental man who has a very large temper.
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The centre of gravity of any cone is the point which divides its axis so that the portion adjacent to the vertex is triple of the portion adjacent to the base.
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When I first started working at MIT, back in the '80s, our writing department had a joint cocktail party with the Harvard writing department. It was kind of oil-and-water.
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Yes, well that's very cute, but you're running this office like a bunch of bullshit.
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To just get in front of different kinds of audiences is important for me. I do think it's important for music to be a big family. Whether it's country or not.
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Hard work always pays off, whatever you do.
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In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.
