Erma Bombeck Quotes
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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Nothing recedes like progress.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it's going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I'm hoping they'll just go hand in hand.
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Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.
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When I present or speak, I write the slides myself. And regarding time, I would like to be able to publish more than I do.
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I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.
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When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?
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If you care about the news and write what you want to read - not just what you think Google search wants to read - there are people out there who want to read it.
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I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.
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Because I'm so tall, clothes look different on me than they do on others.
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Tedium is the lack of a mithology. To whom has no beliefs, even doubt is impossible, even skepticism has no strength to suspect.
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When I see the black experience - there's not one, but it is specific, and you can't ignore it.
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You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.
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You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
