Erma Bombeck Quotes
... it's simply wrong to always order [kids] to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting.Erma Bombeck
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
Imelda Marcos -
I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
Wadada Leo Smith -
You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.
Carly Fiorina -
'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.
Taylor Swift -
If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
W. C. Fields -
I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
Daley Thompson
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
Naveen Jain -
On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
Edmund Hillary -
Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
Larry Dixon -
If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
Aaron Eckhart -
Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
Kate Christensen -
Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.
Ted Deutch
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You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.
Patrick Warburton -
It's a classic album. If it ain't better than 'The Truth,' it's right there with it. I wouldn't say it if I ain't think so, 'cause 'The Truth' was my baby. That's the pure album.
Beanie Sigel -
Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
Vince Lombardi -
For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.
Taylor Swift -
Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of our gravest economic problems, such as mass starvation in a world that at present can easily produce more food than everyone can eat. Reason and voluntary participation are his watchwords.
Ian Hacking -
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
Patrick Henry
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I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.
Kelly Corrigan -
The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.
Sadhu Vaswani -
Yeah, I've been here, man. Where these guys are, I've been there. I guess it comes to a point in your career where it feels good for me to come back, to give something back like this.
Kirby Puckett -
There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.
Jean Reno -
Sroufe informally told me that he thought that resilience in adulthood could be predicted by how lovable mothers rated their kids at age two.
Bessel van der Kolk -
... it's simply wrong to always order [kids] to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting.
Erma Bombeck