Erma Bombeck Quotes
When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.
Erma Bombeck
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Carl Bernstein
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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.
Jack Davenport
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
Natalie Massenet
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
Natalie Dormer
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I am a Zionist.
Yair Lapid
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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!'
Olivia De Havilland
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I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.
Irwin Winkler
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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.
Veronica Cartwright
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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.
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
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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.
Samuel Alexander
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If you want to control other people, first control yourself.
Abu Bakr
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And worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. This is especially true if we're careful to pick the biggest possible problems to worry about. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody want to help Mom do the dishes.
P. J. O'Rourke
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When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?
Jane Smiley
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But the policies of the 1960s would not be successful today. No more would general import controls.They benefit some home industries at the expense of the livelihood of everyone working in exports. We would be robbing Peter to pay Paul.
James Callaghan
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God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said "To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end." God's Garden
Robert Frost
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When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.
Erma Bombeck
