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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Millennials don't go to rallies.
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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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You're not dead at 85. You're a long way from it. Go out and enjoy. You've earned it.
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You don't get paid a whole lot for theatre, but you know, I feel more like, 'Where could I buy this experience, and how much would it cost? Who else would give me this kind of focus and put me in a room with this kind of talent?'
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New York apartments are notoriously small, and my cute little studio is no exception - space is at a premium, which is one of the reasons that I only have a mini-fridge. Great for leftovers, cheese, and chilling Diet Coke.
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I know some of my parents' friends think 'Little Britain' is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can't really say anything negative about that, can you? There's nothing better than making your parents happy. The glee on my father's face that day was amazing.
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I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities.
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No disrespect to any other god, but Shiva's an outsider god. He breaks the rules. He's a brilliant musician, a brilliant dancer; he treats his wife as an equal, and she opposes him many times, but he obsessively loves her.
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A kitchen without an ironing board? Are you kidding? It's un-American. It's like Simon without Garfunkel.
