And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it’s enormously comforting to believe that you’re going to see your loved ones.
BARBARA WALTERSWork 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Don’t worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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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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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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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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Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
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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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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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