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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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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Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
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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 don't get embarrassed.
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The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this.
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I didn't get a normal school life, and my sisters have told me so many fun stories about college, so I'm just so excited.
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We did this film in 13 days, mind you. And 13 days is not very long for a feature film. Nobody in their right mind would argue that. Nobody in their right mind would do that.
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Well, what's interesting, I try not to think about the radio when I'm writing a song. I want people to love the song, and that means it might not be exactly thinking about the radio, but it's thinking about your audience and saying, 'I want people to like this song after it's done.'
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Some divorcees turn their pain inward. They brood, and they grieve for a long time, always wondering if they could have done something differently to keep this from happening. They make every problem in their relationship into something they could have prevented.
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I'm not going to run my business on the basis of quarterly numbers.
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Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.
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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.
