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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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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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
LaToya London
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I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you can in straight-up documentary journalism.
Jamie Johnson
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People really need to take time and read a book. You know? That’s my advice. You could read A New Slant on Life, you could read Dianetics. And I think if you really read it, you’ll understand it, but unless you do, you’ll speculate. And I think that’s a mistake to do that.
John Travolta
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Become abundant with your compliments to others. We're all so fragile, especially when we put on a brave face. A sincere compliment can penetrate beneath even the most sophisticated masks to soothe troubled souls.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Live life today and deal with tomorrow when it comes!
Brian McFadden
Westlife
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I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
Erma Bombeck