Erma Bombeck Quotes
The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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I try to write stories that will attract younger readers and make them feel part of a wider readership. I do not feel able to write books that are about, or even for, teenagers; and I am inclined to be suspicious of books which 'target' them.
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.
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I love outdoor winter activities like snow tubing and snowball throwing.
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Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
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If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.
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High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others.
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There's no question there needs to be higher-paying opportunities for women. It's not that it hasn't existed in certain categories: Certain women have made a lot of money... Jennifer Lawrence... is being paid a lot of money, rightfully so, for the franchises she's in.
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I was always amazed when people were kind to us.
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When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go.
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The sin forgiven by Christ in Heaven By man is cursed alway.
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In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.
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I'm not interested in the past or in talking about myself.
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It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself.
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People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. Now... I love it.
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Youth is the only thing worth having.
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I grew up listening to so many different things, and having a dad that also sang, music was innately born into me. Going through high school and college, I'd go see anyone who came to town, it didn't matter the genre.
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America's most dangerous export was never nuclear weapons or Jerry Lewis-or even Baywatch reruns. It was, is, and probably always will be our fast-food outlets.
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The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?
