Erma Bombeck Quotes
I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.
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My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.
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I think women have the right to consult their own wishes, needs, and capacities and produce only loved, wanted children they can care for - or even no children at all. I think we would all be better off as a society if we respected women's ability to make these decisions for themselves and concentrated on caring well for the born.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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If people don't want to go to the picture, nobody can stop them.
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Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
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Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does 'culture' become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can at best appreciate the monuments of earlier faith; it cannot produce them.
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The harebrained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
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As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up on that dream.
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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
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It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.
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I've always been independent. I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes.
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I love' Les Mis,' and I owe it a lot, because I wouldn't have been born without it.
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The focus is what is right before you - to give it your best. It sows the seeds of tomorrow.
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If you don't embrace who you are and accept who you are, you won't be able to live a happy life.
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Newt correctly assumes that the American public is beginning to look down the road and at least distinguish the landmarks on either side and know where it wants go. We have a chance to lead it there.
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We're an industry obsessed with the storytelling side of things, the content. And then we got obsessed with the canvas. Is it going to be on television? Is it print? And now the canvas is mobile. But what we really need to think about is the context. The context is where and when the person is consuming it - location, time of day.
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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.
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And now they are getting married, and I'm still single! What's wrong with me?
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The lead actor, along with the director, plays a big role in what the vibe will be on set, and that's a huge responsibility.
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Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.
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I try to remind myself that nothing is permanent. The chaos and the stress of life won't last forever. Eventually, it will go away and I will once again be left with nothing but happiness.
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You're doing a major merger, you got to hope you didn't get it wrong. That's the view of any CEO.
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I don't believe that the solutions in society will come from the left or the right or the north or the south. They will come from islands within those organizations, islands of people with integrity who want to do something.
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I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.
