Erma Bombeck Quotes
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I am a Zionist.
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Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought 'saucisson' so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child - until I learned it meant 'sausage!'
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I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.
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There was a period of time when I couldn't seem to get anything. I was on the series 'Daniel Boone,' and then, when that ended, I was still under 18, so I was too young to be in the older category and too old to be a child. So there was a few years there that were dry.
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People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.
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In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
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If you want to control other people, first control yourself.
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To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.
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The car resembles a dragon fly or any other jumping animal that moves shorter distances in straight lines and then changes its direction at different points.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.
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I had never thought about writing a novel. But I had two young kids, and I realized that if I could write a novel, I could work at home.
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When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.
