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Erma Bombeck Quotes

Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 21, 1927 - April 22, 1996

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Me Fruit Small Someone Dead Over

I've always been really interested in how people's identities are shaped by where they come from and how they want to get away from where they come from.

People Want Always Where Get Been

I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity.

Jesse L. Martin

Great Humanity Want Actor Remembered

I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.

Jeff Vandermeer

Music Character Trying Build Mood

Everybody would rather get a quick submission, a quick knockout.

Quick Get Submission Would Rather

As an international sportsman, I am very lucky to be supported by people all over the world, many of who treat me as one of their own, no matter what their nationality, or indeed mine. This is the way sport should be.

I Am People Me World Treat Way

Stand-up and boxing are very similar. You're the only one out there, you're going into a fight, and you're going in with a game plan.

Fight Game Plan You Boxing Out

With interest rates rising, gold doesn't pay an interest rate, but every other currency - it becomes not only less important to hold gold as an alternative, but more expensive to hold it as an insurance policy and so that will be a burden on the price of gold.

Lloyd Blankfein

Gold Insurance Price Burden Will

No human being who wants to read and own a book should ever have to go on a bended knee to get it.

Book Go Human Human Being Own Get

The Rwandan policy of putting the genocide behind them is incredibly effective in many ways. But it's also incredibly frightening to think that this nation is being asked put this mass slaughter behind them.

Think Nation Genocide Policy Being

Software options proliferate extremely easily - too easily, in fact - because too many options create tools that can't ever be used intuitively. Intuitive actions confine the detail work to a dedicated part of the brain, leaving the rest of one's mind free to respond with attention and sensitivity to the changing texture of the moment.

Work Moment Mind Brain Detail Rest

That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.

Family Story Personal Stuff Tried

I am not going to disconnect from Bollywood or sacrifice my career in the industry for international projects. Everything began here, and I respect that.

Respect Sacrifice I Am Career Going

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