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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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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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 still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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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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I really do believe we can stuff enough algorithms in a movie that only the dedicated hackers can spend the time and effort to try to plumb through those 1,000 algorithms to try to find a way to beat it.
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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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In my dreams, I have Keira Knightley's eyebrows.
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To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn't mean you need to attack the person, but you do need to look at it like you're trying to get information that has not been written about before.
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Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.
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As we applaud the hard-edged realism of the opening battle scene of Saving Private Ryan, we cringe at the thought of seeing the same on the nightly news.We are told it would be pornographic.
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Whatever you say about popular culture, people like people who know things, who are experts, and it doesn't particularly matter what they look like.
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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.
