Erma Bombeck Quotes
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
Erma Bombeck
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
Harold Bloom
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
Rachel Platten
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
Samuel Johnson
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
Taylor Swift
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
Lao Tzu
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When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
Patrick Demarchelier
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
Verite
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
Tarja Halonen
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The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.
Pablo Sandoval
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
Yani Tseng
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For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
Owen Arthur
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As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant.
Nathan Lane
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People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
E. L. Doctorow
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
Zara Cox
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I went to Coachella once, and it was only to go see Leonard Cohen. I got in the car and sat through all the crazy traffic in L.A. to get there - instead of a two hour drive, it takes, like, six hours. Then I watched his set and turned around and left. I just so wanted to see him perform in the desert.
Hannah Simone
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I'm not a drummer anymore, on my gravestone, if there is one, if anyone writes anything about me besides hopefully being a dad, it would be that I sang in my band when I was in my 20s. So I was like, 'Yeah, I should probably focus on this a little more,' so I just practiced a lot. (When asked about his singing.)
Patrick Stump
Fall Out Boy
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Focusing purely on extremism, whether in the Arab-Islamic world or the West, will not alleviate the root causes of tensions between members of different cultures. It will only alienate those who do not recognise themselves in those stereotypes, and generate fear and misunderstanding.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
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There are some actors who are very good at developing things, who have... 'things in the pipeline.' I am abysmal at that kind of thing, loathe it, and am a terrible planner. Unless I'm showing up on the set and acting, I prefer to have nothing to do with the actual business of being an actor.
James Spader
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Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
Pablo Picasso
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It is now possible to target adverts to the right person at the right time in the right place. But that is not enough.
Jerry Della Femina
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L.A., for me, is a perfect microcosm of America - because it's so profligate, and so glamorous, and so anti-intellectual, finally.
Lydia Millet
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I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
Erma Bombeck
