Erma Bombeck Quotes
The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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I never discuss discussions.
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Any little touch a defender can make on me when I'm in the air literally moves me. On the ground, I can use my muscle, but in the air, it's harder to fight that off.
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I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.
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I love outdoor winter activities like snow tubing and snowball throwing.
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I need to put the right things in my body before and after I work out, so I end every workout with some sort of protein shake to help me get the most out of my training.
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All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.
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I do boxing; I do a little jiu jitsu, which I am obsessed with.
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If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.
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I have always been terrified of the death of my parents. I never knew if I could count on myself. I never knew if that would send me over the edge.
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What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.
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I never weigh myself. That's the best advice I can give - never step on a scale. You know if you're being healthy, if you're exercising. You don't need to be undermined by some crazy number.
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What you guys want, I'm for.
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You get spoiled on 'Captain America,' where your trailer's two blocks long and it's got three bedrooms.
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As I famously said before, I don't like to waste meals. I'm no one's food snob.
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Just give food without showing affection, [animals] might not get sort of 100% satisfaction. So they also, you see, when we human beings, we show affection, the poor animal also respond to us.
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The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.
