Erma Bombeck Quotes

There would have been more 'I love you's' and more, 'I'm sorry's'.

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• I voted for Barack Obama.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Barack Obama
  • Obama
  • Barack

• When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Try

• You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Me
  • Act
  • Course

• I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Work
  • Together
  • Dark

• I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Roles
  • Position
  • Queen

• I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mistakes
  • Very
  • Scale

• There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Myself
  • Learn
  • Criticism

• I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Hands

• I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

  

  Harry Caray
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Power
  • Doubt
  • Values

• I want to be the defensive player to break the MVP barrier. I want to break barriers. I want to do things when people tell me I can't.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • True
  • Today

• I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Real
  • Father
  • Like

• You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Done
  • Think
  • Gold

• Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • Balance
  • Meaningful

• I think the self-burning itself on practice of non-violence. These people, you see, they easily use bomb explosive, more casualty people. But they didn't do that. Only sacrifice their own life. So this also is part of practice of non-violence.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Life
  • Violence

• I prefer that Argentina wins the World Cup. Messi deserves it for all he has done in football. He's my friend, I wish him the best.

  

  Neymar
  • Football
  • Wins
  • World Cup

• Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Great
  • Deal
  • Abundance

• Again, we just blew our chance, it's that simple. I'll be the first one to take the blame. Everyone's a part of it. To the credit of our players, they put us in position after being .500 for the better part of the season, but we told them going into the Dayton game this team will be remembered positively or negatively by what happened in March. There will be some negative memories about this season because of what happened in March. That's the cold, hard reality.

  

  Brad Soderberg
  • Game
  • Reality
  • Team

• I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Love
  • Future
  • Dance

• Dear reader, with this book I want to do for you what my teachers and mentors did for me: unlock the power and beauty of mathematics, and enable you to enter this magical world the way I did, even if you are the sort of person who has never used the words “math” and “love” in the same.

  

  Edward Frenkel
  • Love
  • Mathematics
  • Reader

• There would have been more 'I love you's' and more, 'I'm sorry's'.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Love