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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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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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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We are constantly under lots of pressure, so I take lots of time to recover and do all the things I need for my body to be in the perfect state to compete the next day.
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I wasn't concerned with the money stuff; I only wanted to play football.
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Critics... They're like traffic cops. They say what they have to say, then leave, and another guy moves in ,and he has his say - and it's often just the opposite. The result is either critical acclaim or critical murder, and neither has any bearing on my music or direction.
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Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.
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Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written.
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A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden 'worthless' land now has an airport on it.
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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.
