politics … is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It’s not only a conversation-wrecker, it’s a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.
BARBARA WALTERSA good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don’t fight the little fight… Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don’t whine, and don’t be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.
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It’s a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another’s life.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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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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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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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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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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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A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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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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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews ‘fiery debates.’ During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.
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The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.
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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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New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It’s a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
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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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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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