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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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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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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To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.
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There's no reason why the 'Lost' alternate reality game had to be officially made by the 'Lost' production crew.
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I gained a lot of confidence after 'IP Man' as being a true actor. I went on to tackle what it is an actor is supposed to do before a film. Do a lot of research, get into the character. That's what I did with 'Dragon.'
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I have a responsibility to the people who work for me, the manufacturers I work with. There is no point to clothes that don't sell.
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On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughness/skepticism.
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But the audience is right. They're always, always right. You hear directors complain that the advertising was lousy, the distribution is no good, the date was wrong to open the film. I don't believe that. The audience is never wrong. Never.
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Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it? It's like being careful not to sing pop songs in the shower because some guy in the local alt-weekly is a music snob.
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No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
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When people do bad things intentionally, they know they've done them. But it's not to be cared about. That's the problem with the tabloid press; they dramatize these things until there's a state of frenzy. People see frenzy and they go, "What?" Then they clamor toward the frenzy. We all do it. It's a primal, natural response.
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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.
