Erma Bombeck Quotes
Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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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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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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Pineapple reduces swelling.
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In high school, we used to sign to each other during the game, signaling different plays and stuff like that. It was kind of fun. It was definitely unique.
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The beginning of wisdom is to admit to being inept. We’re all a bit slow. We have our moments, but in the end, we have to resort to bumbling through. It is what makes conviction so egregious.
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Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong year - I think it would have been cool to be alive in the '60s.
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So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.
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That may be a factor because we are the older show; we have been on the air for a while. Is it our day? Is it time to hang it up? But it seems that the show still continues, and we still enjoy being here. And that's a very important element.
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I think the reason why a lot of the Spanish films do so well, and are so well done, is because the public really respects it and wants it.
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One of the hardest things I do as FBI Director is call the chiefs and sheriffs in departments around the nation when officers have been killed in the line of duty. I call to express my sorrow and offer the FBI's help.
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To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.
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The pressure is all self-imposed, and it's to live up to the expectations of people who are going to shell out their hard-earned cash to listen to the music. It's actually more than that, though. I wouldn't want to make a record that didn't live up to my expectations.
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My father was an outfielder in the Milwaukee system before he hurt his elbow.
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Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.
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My wife calls me the Imelda Marcos of books. As soon as a book enters our home it is guaranteed a permanent place in our lives. Because I have never been able to part with even one, they have gradually accumulated like sediment.
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Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
