Erma Bombeck Quotes
If I raised my hand to wipe the hair out of my children's eyes, they'd flinch and call their attorney.
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My daughter passed away in 2003.
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It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.
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It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.
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Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world.
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Twitter is worth it if you like tweeting. Same is true of Facebook. Or Pinterest. Nothing wrong with having a social presence.
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Almost overnight, white people have gone from being very powerful to potentially irrelevant. Their future in South Africa is not what many had envisaged, so it involves a lot of reinvention.
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One of my favorites is Angela Merkel because I think she's been an extraordinary, strong leader during difficult times in Europe, which has obvious implications for the rest of the world and, most particularly, our country... her bravery in the face of the refugee crisis is something that I am impressed by.
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When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.
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Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.
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There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.
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The worst resentment that anybody can have is one you feel justified to keep.
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I never trust anything that can be captured in 2 takes.
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.
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I am not a rabble rouser.
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For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills.
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I ultimately wanna do big movies, and I've been so close so many times. They keep giving my roles to girls with just a little more exposure than me.
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I have fabulous children.
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There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
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Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
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Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.
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My music has to be funny and sad and happy and loving; it's gotta have it all. When somebody's just too dark all the time, it's just drama. Or if somebody's too funny? Well, I like being too funny sometimes.
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If I raised my hand to wipe the hair out of my children's eyes, they'd flinch and call their attorney.
