Erma Bombeck Quotes
Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.
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Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
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I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting.
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I require every Taipei student to swim; if they can't pass the test they won't graduate. Why do I do that? Because I think that is very, very important integral part of their education.
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I'm fortunate enough to be living my dreams and a lot of other peoples' dreams.
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My dreams came true while wearing the opening look from the spring/summer 2010 Dior ready-to-wear collection. I will never forget how special I felt opening John Galliano's show, like I was living a dream.
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Too many hearts have been brokenFailing to trust what they feel.But trust isn't something that's spokenAnd love's never wrong when it's real.
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Never mistake activity for achievement.
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Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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People forget how outcast 'They Might Be Giants' can be. They have a reputation for writing really deft, funny, clever melodies, and they also make a lot of music for kids, which is terrific, but when you see them in concert, they can rock the house.
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Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake.
