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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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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What poor people go through, it's amazing they don't do more violent things! If they'd just give you a little dignity, it might help you stand it better. They suffer no heat, no electricity, while you're working, but then you've got to face all the insults, too.
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Weakness indicates dependence, and there is a degree of trust and tenderness also in it.
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But I never was a strikeout pitcher like Bob Feller or Dizzy Dean or Dazzy Vance.
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Among politicians and businessman, Pragmatism is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'
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If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries
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A child needs your love most when he deserves it least
