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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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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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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I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.
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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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I love a man with stubble. It's very sexy.
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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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For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.
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When I started producing it was right at the beginning Channel 4 in England. Nicholas Nickelby which was my first credit as a producer was Contract 001 at Channel 4 - that was the start of independent production in England and the emergence of an independent sector.
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A good religious poem, today, is ambergris, and it is hard to enjoy it for thinking of all those suffering whales; but martyrs are born, not made.
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I got an early education from television.
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I feel lousy about the pain that I've caused my wife and kids. I feel guilty and conscience-stricken, and all of those things you think sentimental, but which my generation calls simple human decency. And I miss my home, because I'm beginning to get scared shitless, because all of a sudden it's closer to the end than the beginning, and death is suddenly a perceptible thing to me, with definable features.
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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.
