Erma Bombeck Quotes
Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman unwrapping six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
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In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.
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I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
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I started modeling when I was 16. The odds were against me. At 5' 8, I was shorter than most girls in the business. Still, I gave it a shot, and like with most things in my life, I never gave up.
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I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
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It is remarkable how fast and how effectively you can construct a nationality with a flag, a few speeches, and a national anthem; to this day I avoid the label 'Lebanese,' preferring the less restrictive 'Levantine' designation.
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
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Order and tidiness is the first law of Heaven.
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I never plan a structure. I like surprises. I'm quite disciplined and sit at my desk every day and just write.
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We would naturally prefer not to reckon with the worst of what people do or say on the margins, but we have to. Especially if it seems possible to trace a line from vicious rhetoric on a computer screen to violent action.
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I consider fitness, diet, and beauty to be essential to a balanced self.
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I have a hard time repeating myself.
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When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.
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Meetings with no goal, also known as 'coffee shop' meetings, can be huge time wasters if you're not efficient with them. 'Always know why you're meeting, and make sure it's important - try to keep them to 30 minutes, max.
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Look more carefully...to find out what it really is that is repeating there .... Beyond its elements, each building or town is defined by certain patterns of relationships among the elements.... These relationships are not extra, but necessary to the elements... The elements themselves are patterns of relationships.
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Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.
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Sex was for men. Marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.
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Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman unwrapping six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name.
