Erma Bombeck Quotes
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Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.
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The most universally awesome experience that mankind knows is to stand alone on a clear night and look at the stars. It was God who first set the stars in space; He is their Maker and Master . . . such are His power and His majesty.
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The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.
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We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.
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The further from one another, the nearer one can be.
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Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.
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I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.
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How can you love me if you dont know me? I stink really bad.
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All too often, it seems, we're willing to be students of Christianity rather than disciples of Christ.
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My dream is to put together a performance of the evolution of black music with Cirque du Soleil . I would also like to do street opera and children's books. But even as I work toward these things, I want to simplify my life.
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They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.
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The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of honor than its conqueror.
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All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.
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There is meaning in all things. But are you paying attention?
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Commentating, illustrating, description giving, adjective expert, analyzing, surmising musical myth seeking people of the universe, this is yours.
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Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.
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I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.
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The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.
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I always have to come back to shows to take out the improvements actors have put in. Laughs are addictive, and sometimes they're good laughs, and sometimes they're bad laughs.
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We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their losses, as we despise any man who does not suffer at being a man or simply at being. Hence no graver insult can be inflicted than to call someone 'happy', no greater flattery than to grant him a 'vein of melancholy'... This is because gaiety is link to no important action and because, except for the mad, no one laughs when he is alone.
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The last time I saw Robert Kennedy was in an elevator by accident also, going up, one week before he was shot.
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He who laughs.....lasts.
