Erma Bombeck Quotes
Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
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This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
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Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
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I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
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The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.
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Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.
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None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
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I would like to think that in America, as time goes on, you gain freedom, not lose freedom.
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I think I don't want to use drugs or medicine, so nothing. The only way is to go on stage and to hope.
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I've always been a fan of Coldplay.
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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I'm not an easy person to love. There are lots of times when I'm a very good boyfriend, but there are times when I'm useless. I mean, I'm a mess around the house. I talk nonstop. I become obsessed with things.
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As an actor, you audition a lot for 'the girlfriend' or the 'hot girl.'
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Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.
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There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we would have these great parties at the house with congas and bongos and African drums, and it was amazing. It wasn't until years later that I found out that they were actually Black Panther meetings.
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...I have this scar on my hand (points to shoulder). I see a lot of these guys who come with scars on their hands. It’s ridiculous. With me it was an accident. These kids do it on purpose. You can’t prove by doing such things that you are the biggest fan there is. I am myself thinking about getting a plastic surgery done to remove this. I also get a lot of people writing to me with their blood. I have stopped replying to those mails altogether.
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I think there are a lot of great journalists out there. I don't find much fault in the journalist in general; I think everybody would like to break a good story.
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Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how hard they try to please us, and how miserable they feel when they think they have failed.
