Erma Bombeck Quotes

The more I think about it, the more there is to be said for the sloth. He sleeps fifteen to eighteen hours a day and is known to have taken forty-eight days to travel four miles. He hangs in the trees after he's dead. But he lives longer than the cheetah.

Erma Bombeck

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• Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
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• If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

  

  Randall Jarrell
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• Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• People are incredible creatures of habit.

  

  Sam Altman
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  • Habit
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• The flower has no weekday self, dressed as it always is in Sunday clothes.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
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• '...there were some things that were true, and some things that were trite; but what was true was trite, and what was not trite was not true...'

  

  Arthur Balfour
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• One of the clearest indications of the impending loss of intimacy with one's soul is the failure to recognize the existence of a soul in those over whom power is exercised, especially if the helpless come to be treated as animals, and degraded.

  

  Al Gore
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• My standup is observational, but it's self-observational, and it's self-deprecating, definitely.

  

  Chelsea Handler

• I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Trying

• You don't protect Mark McGwire. The only way to protect him is hit 70 homers yourself.

  

  Eric Davis

• Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

  

  David Amram
  • Knowledge
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• Hobby Lobby has always been a tool for the Lord's work.

  

  David Green
  • Work

• Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
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• I don't really even go out that much now, except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised. I used to be a really friendly person, and now I just want to be invisible. I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.

  

  Sia LSD
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• Nowadays, everyone has a camera phone, and you have to be careful about being caught out there looking crazy and ending up on the Internet.

  

  Keith Sweat
  • Up
  • Crazy

• Don't make jokes about food.

  

  David Lean
  • Food

• If we want to protect people against dictators or repression or torture, don't you need that rule to be universal so as to not end up with a situation where we do so only when it is comfortable, profitable and safe?

  

  Donald Tusk
  • People
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• I know we should aspire to be higher philosophical beings, contemplating the universe and becoming more refined humans, but if all we did was think, then arguably we'd never have invented the wheel.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Universe
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• 'Star Wars' is my favorite movie series ever. I like the old ones better than the new ones, but I like all of them.

  

  Marley Dias
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• I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Life
  • Free
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• Studies have shown that people who are physically active sleep better than those who are sedentary. The more energy you expend during the day, the sleepier you will feel at bedtime.

  

  Andrew Weil
  • People
  • Energy
  • Sleep

• My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

  

  Mike Myers
  • Funny
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• MOTHER: Why, just lying there, Jim, you run so fast. I never saw anyone move so much, just sleeping. Promise me, Jim. Wherever you go and come back, bring lots of kids. Let them run wild. Let me spoil them, some day. JIM: I'm never going to own anything that can hurt me.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Kids
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• The more I think about it, the more there is to be said for the sloth. He sleeps fifteen to eighteen hours a day and is known to have taken forty-eight days to travel four miles. He hangs in the trees after he's dead. But he lives longer than the cheetah.

  

  Erma Bombeck
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