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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• Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

  

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

  

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• My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.

  

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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.

  

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  • Up
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• I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.

  

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

  

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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.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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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.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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• When I say that Zen is life, I mean that Zen is not to be confined within conceptualization, that Zen is what makes conceptualization possible.

  

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• I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.

  

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• There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.

  

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• Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous anecdotes and divine revelation - endows the reader with the power of creating a story, and the listener with a sense of being present at the moment of creation.

  

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• If that didn't let him know this weekend that he can be a great player in this league, then nothing will. But I think he got the message.

  

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  • Great
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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