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"Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go."
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"I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: "Checkout Time is 18 years.""
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"There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it."
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"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other."
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"Children make your life important."
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"A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest."
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"A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat."
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"In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet."
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"Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments."
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"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."
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"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'."
God
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