"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one;……" — Erma Bombeck
"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other."
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251 Quotes by Erma Bombeck
Erma Bombeck has 251 quotes on this site.
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a…
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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not…
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A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
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When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if…
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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it…
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I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met…
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Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
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There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
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Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the…
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One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop…
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More Confuse Quotes
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.
— Michele Bachmann
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying…
— William Bernbach
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I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.
— Brenda Blethyn
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Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
— Marlon Brando
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The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.
— William S. Burroughs
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Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.
— Hillary Clinton
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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
— Laurie Anderson
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We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful…
— C.S. Lewis
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Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness. . . . For you see, greatness is a measure of one's…
— Sherman Glenn Finesilver
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Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.
— George H. W. Bush
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