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 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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Because I'm so tall, clothes look different on me than they do on others.
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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
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We manufacture automotive components including critical engine and axle parts for passenger cars, diesel engines and medium & heavy commercial vehicles. Till 1997, our focus was almost entirely on the domestic market with a relatively insignificant portion of revenues from exports.
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To win at Augusta and to win The Open Championship at St. Andrews, it's hard to put it into words as a golfer, as an athlete, as a guy - I'm not rich in history, I can tell you that. I'm not a great historian.
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Some people who like dogs don't like cats, but I'm not like that.
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Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.
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I've owned a business for 26 years. My family isn't in politics and my supporters aren't special interest groups in Madison and Milwaukee.
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Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time.
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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.
