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Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

Barbara Walters

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.
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Command Greatness Intelligence People Thinking Willing Word
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.
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Accent Beautiful Kind Myself Thinking
Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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Big Complain Early Fight Job Stay
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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New Party Person Shallow Year
Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.
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Crazy Genius People
Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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Children Sex Way
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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Better Goodness Interview Laughter
Après ski is my favorite sport.
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Favorite Skis Sports
The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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Hard Trust Willing Yourself
When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
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Control Interview Thinking Yourself
I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn’t.
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Depend Myself People Rumor Taste
When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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Blame Children Trouble Yourself
But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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Drink Earth Heaven Paradise Pleasure Sex Yourself
If it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
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Aggression Authority Best Man Woman Word
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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Famous Greatness Myself Party People Rare Recover Technique
Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
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Airplane Clouds Rainbow

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

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