Erma Bombeck Quotes
There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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I think when you're a TV presenter, you have to have a reason for doing it, and a lot of them have been around a long time and grafted for that. The reason why it works with me on 'The Xtra Factor' is because I was a contestant on it, and I have a relationship with the viewers at home.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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When I'm working, even though it's sometimes challenging and difficult, there's still no place I would rather be.
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I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.
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I love scoring for the fans, for the team, for myself. That's not to say that I won't pass if I see a teammate in a better scoring position. But I like to score.
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The nature of this melancholy becomes clearer, once one asks the question, with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time.
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The good thing about feature films is that the budgets tend to scale.
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Put simply, if an interface is poorly designed, I will not see the data I looked for, even if it is right there on the page.
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I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.
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The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe.
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Both the Left and the Right need to connect as people rather than as political entities.
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So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age.
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Whenever I write, I try and approach my stories from some kind of universal theme or idea or emotion.
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I loved gymnastics, and my gymnastics teacher said ballet was essential to help my dance routines in competitions. I only really went because my friends were going as well. It wasn't this kind of hidden love. Then, slowly, my friends stopped going and I thought, 'I like this. I am going to stay.'
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I love learning new techniques.
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When a great adventure is launched with a powerful thrust, fatigue in the muscles and doubts in the mind are swept away by a fullness that moves life along like a breath from the depths of the soul.
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I have worked with the biggest actors from the beginning. I am hoping God will bless me to work with other big actors.
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Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined.
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There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.
