Erma Bombeck Quotes
Family life got better and we got our car back - as soon as we put 'I love Mom' on the license plate.
Quotes to Explore
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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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The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Televisa is the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world, and the steps we have taken, which extend the tenure of our exclusive access to Televisa's premium Spanish-language telenovelas, sports, sitcoms, reality series, news programs and feature films, put Univision in a stronger competitive position.
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At 14 and 15, I used to listen to Tito Puente, Dave Valentine and everything that was happening with American jazz. I love it.
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I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to.
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A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.
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More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.
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Hunting for malware requires highly specialized knowledge of the intricacies of the domain name system - the protocol that allows us to type email addresses and website names to initiate communication. DNS enables our words to set in motion a chain of connections between servers, which in turn delivers the results we desire.
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When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth.
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Public speaking, for me, or speaking even in front of a handful of people is my greatest fear.
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I looked on IMDB, at the message boards there, and someone had posted something about a sheep having more talent than me.
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I can't sing, so... I don't know if I will be doing any musicals.
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Every single day, entrepreneurship has highs and lows, and you need to feel like you have a community around you. That is insanely important - to have a community of people around you lifting you up and who really know you.
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You're allowed to have gravitas when you've got the wrinkles to prove it, but not when you're attractive and younger - or, at least, you have to fight really hard to prove you're capable of productive thought.
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I suspect I wasn't loved enough as a child.
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I went to work. That was a turning point. When you have to do eight shows a week and your name is on the marquee, no matter what is going on at home or what's on the cover of the newspapers, you've got to do your job.
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We live in an age where there is a firehose of information, and there is no hierarchy of what is important and what is not. Where the truth is often fashioned through a variety of digital means. Are you your avatar? Who are you in social media? What face do you turn toward the world? How much does it have in common with who you actually are?
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I was quite creative at school, and was also interested in fashion, but I was shy - I'm still not the loudest of people, believe it or not.
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The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
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I made a CD in my dorm room and put it on the Internet, and my friends blew it up. Within a few months, I was doing shows across the country without a record deal, without a single, without anything.
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There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics...When this country is operating off a common ground, nobody can stop us. But when we're divided, then we end up having a whole lot of self-inflicted problems.
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Family life got better and we got our car back - as soon as we put 'I love Mom' on the license plate.
