Erma Bombeck Quotes
Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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I don't have a trainer. I have what I call 'the poor man's workout and the rich man's diet.' I run for 1 hour every day and do 500 sit-ups and 1000 crunches, and I lift weights at the Y for 28 bucks a month, even if it's 3 in the morning.
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I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.
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Music leaves such a big impression. I always wondered, 'Man, if I grew up in Nashville, would I be making Country records now?' I honestly feel like Chicago had such a big impact on me.
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Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
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There is only one Whedon, and I am his prophet.
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The relevant poems are Milton's Paradise Lost, Pope's Essay on Man, Wordsworth's Excursion, Tennyson's In Memoriam.
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As quoted in Ted Talk 'The child-driven education' by Sugata Mitra (2012)
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When the economy goes sour, there are three different kinds of restaurants that do well: the smaller-scale neighborhood restaurants that don't ask much of you; those that have banked enormous goodwill by offering great value during the boom; and those with proven records of excellence, a sure thing.
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Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
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I'm a spiritual person.
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I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.
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I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.
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Fleetwood Mac has been pretty truthful. Open about what we do. We've always done it from the inside out. Versus being pressured from the outside and changing the inside. And that's our story.
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I kind of have the most amazing fans ever. They are the most committed, passionate people, and I love them so much.
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If I do manage to come up with a scheme [to naming], however, I stick to it, which is why my cats are named after gods-Loki and Athena, who are, respectively, absolutely straightforward and affectionate, and dumber than dirt. I learned my lesson. I will name my next cat 'Satan' or 'Marduk' or something, thereby ensuring a kind, gentle beast who treats my upholstery like a shrine.
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Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.
