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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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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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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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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Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.
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If you are wearing the right jersey, people rallying in around you, and hugging each other when you win, and there's so much love and excitement when you're together. And then people seem to walk away, take their jerseys off, and start focusing on the color of your skin. It didn't matter for that couple hours at the game - why does it matter now?
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I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.
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I am happier now than I have ever been.
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I think it's important to celebrate your successes. It's important to feel happy about them, but it's equally important to look forward to the next big move.
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When I put Foster The People together, I just wanted to play music with friends.
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All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
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In the long term everyone traffics in foregone conclusions, and in the short term they just get drunk. This is the way it has always been. Some half-assed ambiguity masquerading as mystery is all anybody's really looking for.
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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.
