Erma Bombeck Quotes
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
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I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
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My biggest asset is not cash - it's a large, growing, devout fanbase.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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As long as offices are open to all men and no constitutional rank is established, it is pure republicanism.
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I like to have cookies in the morning before I go swimming.
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Stacy Keach was really fun to work with, and Henry Winkler was very fun.
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With 'True Detective,' you have a lot of time. How I like to describe it... it's like you're filming a theater piece.
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Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
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I think at this point I only write books about questions I really want to figure out. They're indulgences, essentially. I think, 'What would I like to spend five years really thinking about? What could I gain from thinking about for five years?'
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The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.
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The only thing I find interesting is self-interest.
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In 2008, Milton Sheppard opened the Waiter Training School in the Bronx, N.Y., charging $175 for courses, but the business soon ran out of money. He now operates a clown college in the same space.
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By the time I reached 50, I'd accumulated many unresolved fears and desires.
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The pulse of the People is still so high as to call for more bleeding, before quinine can be administered with any hope of benefit.
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'Dependent web' platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Google and Yahoo are where people go to discover and share new content. Independent sites are the millions of blogs, community and service sites where passionate individuals 'hang out' with like-minded folks. This is where shared content is often created.
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I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
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A child needs your love most when he deserves it least
