Erma Bombeck Quotes
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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.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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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.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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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.
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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.
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After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.
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When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.
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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.
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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.
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For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
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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.
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People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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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.
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Is it racist to prefer country music over the blues? Or is it simply a classic case of tribal antipathy toward the unfamiliar, in favor of gravitating to what you know?
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Many Christians have the mistaken notion that eternal life begins when they die. But that is not biblically accurate. Eternal life begins when we are born again into the Kingdom of God.
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I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign.
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That life is long which answers life's great end.
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When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave life threw at me.
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I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
