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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Recording 'Tusk' was quite absurd. The studio contract rider for refreshments was like a telephone directory.
Christine McVie
Fleetwood Mac
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At some future day it will be proved, I cannot say when and where, that the human soul is, while in earth life, already in an uninterrupted communication with those living in another world.
Immanuel Kant
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In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.
Armstrong Williams
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Don't let the American twang fool you. I still say, 'I'm going home,' when I come to England, and I love a good old cup of PG Tips with a Jaffa Cake.
Lily Collins
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Local government in England is simply too big. Our lowest tier serves an average population of 118,500, while in the U.S. and across continental Europe the figures are more like several thousand.
Geoff Mulgan
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When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.
Erma Bombeck
