Erma Bombeck Quotes

I firmly believe kids don't want your understanding. They want your trust, your compassion, your blinding love and your car keys, but you try to understand them and you're in big trouble.

Erma Bombeck

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• I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

  

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• If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.

  

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• I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

  

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• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

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• I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.

  

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• The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

  

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• Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

  

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• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
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• The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.

  

  Bayard Taylor
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• Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

  

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• I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

  

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• If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

  

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• Let us learn from the lessons of September 11 and not wait for a major strike before we act. We must work together - Democrats and Republicans, Congress and the White House, government and the private sector - to make our country a safer and more prosperous place.

  

  Dan Coats
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• I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

  

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• I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters in combat and I was fine, and I survived 13 months in recovery in the hospital... I got to Congress, and six months later I'm on blood pressure medication. Fourteen months later, they doubled the dosage!

  

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• In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.

  

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• I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.' But I was wrong.

  

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• People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.

  

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• Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to play like all of them. All of these people were important to me. I couldn't play like any of them, though.

  

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• Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.

  

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• I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.

  

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  • Good
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• I firmly believe kids don't want your understanding. They want your trust, your compassion, your blinding love and your car keys, but you try to understand them and you're in big trouble.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Compassion