Erma Bombeck Quotes
I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded.
Quotes to Explore
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
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There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.
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I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.
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Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.
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Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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As a 14-year-old with anxiety, to have read about that in a book would have helped me so much.
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I'm a fan of Bradley Cooper's.
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I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.
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The raising to life of all animate beings at the resurrection of the dead can be no more difficult for Divine Power than restoring to life a fly in the spring, heavy with the death-stained sleep of winter.
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I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I believe in two eyes for an eye.
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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
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I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.
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I have so many photos of me where I'm laughing like a crazy person. I don't know what it is, but I just go with it.
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I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad.
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Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I'm going to do it, if I can do it... Then I walk on set and the director says, 'Roll', and all of a sudden, all of it disappears and it's all happening, and I relax, and I'm doing what I do, and I'm not even thinking about it.
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Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.
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By the power invested in me by the state of New York and the Universal Life Church, I now pronounce you husband and husband. You can kiss the groom.
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
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And while I ate muffins—things I had never been able even to look at in London, but now swallowed with complacence,—and Pincher sat in front of me watching every mouthful, just as though he hadn’t had an enormous dinner a few minutes before, and the cat, finished with Knobbie’s ears, deftly turned her over and began tidying her stomach, I did feel that my feet were set once more in the path of peace, and that all I had to do was to continue steadily along it.
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I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded.
