Erma Bombeck Quotes

Last year I gave seventy-four phone hours to soliciting baked goods for the Bake-A-Rama. I was named Top Call Girl by the League.

Erma Bombeck

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• Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

  

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• Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

  

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• I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.

  

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• My baby is the joy in my life.

  

  Candace Parker
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• It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.

  

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• My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.

  

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• Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

  

  Barack Obama
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• The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.

  

  Ednita Nazario
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• May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

  

  Daniel Boone
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• Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

  

  Manfred Eigen
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• I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.

  

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• Randy said I could call him for anything, Paula said that she loved me and said how much of a star I was. Simon was like, keep up the good work and I'll have nothing to worry about.

  

  LaToya London
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• My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.

  

  KaDee Strickland
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• That is one of the reasons why we advocate for good relations between the two countries. Turkey understands the needs of the region.

  

  Igor Luksic
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• The name 'Republican' in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

  

  E. W. Howe
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• Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man, this race and that race and the other race being inferior and therefore they must be placed in an inferior position. Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• I am one of the endangered species: people who still write in meter and rime.

  

  X. J. Kennedy
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• In response to a question about what 'keeps her up at night', I worry about the fact that in K-12 education I can look at your zip code and tell whether or not you're going to get a good education.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
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• Part of the punk attitude was that you should project your music through your whole body... show your personality as much as possible.

  

  William Broad Generation X
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• I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that theres so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you.

  

  Ryan Gosling
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• I have a girl crush on Olivia Munn so much, especially on 'Newsroom.' And Cara Delevingne, but who doesn't love her face? Viola Davis is my acting crush.

  

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• What I tell a girl is, your six-pack hot boyfriend right now, in six years, will be balding and maybe have a paunch. But I make you laugh every five minutes today, and I'll make you laugh 20 years from now; that's not going to go away.

  

  Vir Das
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• Last year I gave seventy-four phone hours to soliciting baked goods for the Bake-A-Rama. I was named Top Call Girl by the League.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Girl
  • League
  • Humorous