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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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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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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The Australian cast of mind is not something I would want to be without - and I couldn't be without. It's not a choice.
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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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For me upward social mobility is possible through talent and hard work and is a glowing endorsement of the benefits of living in a modern capitalist society. It's not so much evidence of a meritocracy, as evidence of healthy nepotism. Nepotism is at the core of a good group dynamic. A good group dynamic is at the core of rock'n'roll.
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People will say to me, "Well, nobody really believes this stuff." But as a reporter I go out and talk to people who do believe it. And they can talk about it for hours.
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I have never gotten my nails done.
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Thinking is to man what flying is to birds. Don’t follow the example of a chicken when you could be a lark.
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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.
