Erma Bombeck Quotes
One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do!
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I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world.
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Trust me: I do hit the snooze button about 4 times.
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The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.
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I was an arrogant man. I not only thought I could manage my life without help, I wanted it that way. I had best-selling books and a TV show and movie contracts; I felt invincible, secure in the thought that everything was my doing. And then, like all arrogant men, I came to stumble.
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Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens's creme brulee. That's just a joke, for you in the media.
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I like looking cute. So I want to look cute in the water.
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I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.
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The case could be made that Rick Perry is the worst debater to ever run for president.
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Republicans will own Congress.
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My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing - like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he's a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.
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One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.
