Erma Bombeck Quotes
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My style of singing is very much Latin jazz meets Latin and a little bit of rhythm and blues. When I do ballads, my fans love it. They want to listen to my classics. They want to party.
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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I'm a proud family man.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
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The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.
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My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'
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In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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It's shown and proved that hard work pays off. Make goals, achieve them and replace them with new goals.
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It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.
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People now tell me it's a good thing I stayed away from teen films. Well, it wasn't my choice. I wasn't hired.
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By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.
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Why worry about these small, small things? I don't stress. You never hear of anyone dying of happiness.
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French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.
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Editing is hard but nowhere NEAR as tough as facing that blank page and blinking cursor each day. You're all alone and no one else can do it. At least with editing you have someone in the trench with you.
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The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more so.
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Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.
