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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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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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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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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Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.
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You're always taught that the world is so competitive. You're taught that it's not very likely for you to become successful and that odds are you're going to be a struggling artist for the rest of your life.
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I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.
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The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.
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By my third try, Lady Aithra had lost her patience and brought me to stand before her son while he was in conference with a group of hard-faced Athenian nobles. I smiled unashamedly when she called me willful, wild, and ungrateful, which provoked her so much that she actually dared to declare, “My son, you must not marry this girl. I don’t care how beautiful she is, she’ll bring us nothing but grief and leave Athens in flames!
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To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.
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Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake.
