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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Licker talks mighty loud w'en it gits loose from de jug.
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I think Green Day's 'American Idiot' is probably the best comeback or mid-career record that any band has done.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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Whoever envisions not one but two series in New York?
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I just think it's strange when people say, "There is no God." Because I feel so connected to people and things that I just can't deny that there's a God who wants us to tell good stories and be the best we can be and forgive and be forgiven, even if we're not the best we can be. I really believe innately that we do the best we can.
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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.
