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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Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later.
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I like being full, every day, with stuff that I have to do.
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By now, you've probably caught on to something: my mother is always standing by with just the right Scripture or inspirational saying to get me through any tough situation.
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I do miss sometimes being onstage, because when I do film and television, it's usually so brief and funny.
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I have a general sense of excitement about the future, and I don't know what that looks like yet. But it will be whatever I make it.
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Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake.
