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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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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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've always been a fan of Coldplay.
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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 would make the tea on a Daniel Day-Lewis set just to observe how he crafts roles like he did in 'My Left Foot.' That was the equivalent of seeing Haley's Comet for me. I just couldn't understand how that was possible.
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The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
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Study what you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life. It'll be one great adventure.
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The decision to open up Bahrain to embrace all people indiscriminately was fostered in me ever since I was a child.
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I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.
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In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.
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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult for any but natives to speak a language correctly or idiomatically.
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I always make fun of KISS because I don't particularly think their music is anything.
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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.
