Erma Bombeck Quotes
Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.
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I like to get real pretty.
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The important thing is not to know who 'I' is or what 'I' is. You'll never succeed. There are no words for it. The important thing is to drop the labels.
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Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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Kissing on screen is just - funny enough, you're just acting, so you're distracted by that more than anything. Or at least I am.
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Paris Singer had vastly more to do with shaping my character than Mother had; although Mother made innumerable sacrifices for me, and Paris Singer made none. I wanted to be like him.
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Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake.
