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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Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.
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I just had a really crappy time in school and I spent a lot of time writing songs and not doing work. I started talking to Noah - Panda Bear - about recording a really solid album, spending a lot of time on it to get it to sound exactly the way we wanted it to.
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I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s.
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Eternity, not as a static 'now,' nor as a sequence of 'nows' rolling off into the infinite, but as the 'now' that bends back into itself. … Thinking the most difficult thought of philosophy means thinking being as time.
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A lot of people are focused on climate change as a defining challenge of our time. A lot of people think it is a non-problem, at least in the United States.
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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.
