Erma Bombeck Quotes
What makes people laugh? . . . It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give.
Quotes to Explore
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Are we going to solve the issue of poverty? Absolutely not. Are we going to have an impact? I'm committed to it, and if we don't, I'll have no regrets because we're going to try everything we can.
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In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.
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Almost every character I've ever played - and sometimes this is very conscious and sometimes it's not - I need to find what they love.
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We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.
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I believe in hard work, not luck factor. The best efforts will reap the best fruits. Nobody can take all the credit. We don't even talk about the efforts of the director, the writers, other technicians, etc. They all together take a film to another level.
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The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage, in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy.
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It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.
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One country, one constitution, one destiny.
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I don't see how a socialist government can tolerate hunting on horseback. The people who do this are snobs; they're very well-to-do.
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I guess if I get a little weird about something that isn't the way I want it, and I complain, then it's called controlling.
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I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.
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It is sometimes useful to pretend we are deceived, because when we show a deceiving man that we see through his artifices, we only encourage him to increase his deceptions.
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A person is either a Christian or not; there is no in between state
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I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.
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We all have our convictions formed by different things, and mine are informed by my faith, they're informed by the Word of God, and I found that to be an anchor for me, a compass and a guide for me. When people start bullying one another and calling each other names for those different convictions, then I think you get into problems.
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What makes people laugh? . . . It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give.
