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.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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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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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.
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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.
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I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.
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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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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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Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
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People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.
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By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
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I think that's what is so cool about performing. When there is a show to do, you get up there and do it.
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Don't do a startup unless you're ideologically driven to make it succeed beyond the economic motivation.
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I have to say that after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer just isn't that scary anymore.
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Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.
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I have always wanted to do a feature film that brings the world of Lisa Frank to life. We have so much backstory on our characters, and they have been alive in my imagination since the beginning.
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We have to lower our guard and know saying something's wrong isn't a bad thing.
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When you believe in yourself, and you always give 100% in a relationship, you're very confident in the value of your love. But for some people, there's that feeling that the grass is always greener.
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I always love coming to Disneyland but celebrating my birthday here with my family, friends and the kids from YSA is really awesome!, this is a night I'll never forget.
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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.
