Erma Bombeck Quotes
A kitchen without an ironing board? Are you kidding? It's un-American. It's like Simon without Garfunkel.
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It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.
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It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
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I like doing my makeup myself! It's a hobby of mine. I like to play around. I've learned all the best tricks from the pros!
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I never quite toed the line.
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The problem with motor neurone disease is they don't know when it starts. People go into hospital having fallen but get wrapped up and sent away, unless they're seen by an incredibly astute doctor. It is only when several things begin to go wrong that it'll be diagnosed.
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You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
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I am very much obliged to my dear little George for his message - for his love at least; his duty, I suppose, was only in consequence of some hint of my favourable intentions towards him from his father or mother. I am sincerely rejoiced, however, that I ever was born, since it has been the means of procuring him a dish of tea.
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When your kids are their hungriest, put out raw vegetables and dip - simple. It takes two seconds.
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The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy.
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Millennials don't go to rallies.
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I've been picked on my whole entire life, and I feel like I started the IAmMoreThan campaign on Instagram to try to find other people who have been bullied and totally overcame it and did something amazing with it.
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Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.
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It's weird: you do a TED talk on something, and people think that you suddenly have a lot of answers around the topic.
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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
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[I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to broaden our account of the tradition!
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I can pretty much spend an entire week talking about how the writing process works, to be honest! It can really vary from project to project and is often dependent on when you're brought on board, the genre, the platform and the narrative desires of the project.
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After receiving strong encouragement from numerous people that I respect and admire, discussing with my family, and seriously considering it, I have decided not to run for the 12th Congressional District, a seat currently held by a man I admire very much, Representative Jerry Costello.
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A kitchen without an ironing board? Are you kidding? It's un-American. It's like Simon without Garfunkel.
