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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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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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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The older you are when you buy an annuity, the shorter your life expectancy will be - so the greater a monthly paycheck the same sum of money will buy you. When interest rates are higher, the size of the paycheck for the same sum of money will rise also.
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Being a foreigner is not a disease.
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The sanctions have nothing to do with our relations with China, because our relations with the People's Republic of China are at an unprecedented high both in terms of their level and substance. They are what we call "a comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation".
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit. (683)
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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.
