Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
BARBARA WALTERSShow me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn’t perfect at any age – drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter – but it is almost non-existent in old people.
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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I’ve done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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Work harder than everybody. You’re not going to get it by whining, and you’re not going to get it by shouting, and you’re not going to get it by quitting. You’re going to get it by being there.
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Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
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Because there are so many shows on and because I’ve been so hands-on – I’ve had a piece on almost every single week – I don’t know how to cut back on that. You really can’t.
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Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don’t know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I’ve rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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