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.
BARBARA WALTERSThe feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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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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Although I myself don’t go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it’s superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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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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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
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