When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
BARBARA WALTERSA conversation isn’t a competition.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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The news media in general are liberals.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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.
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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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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.
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For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
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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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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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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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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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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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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.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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Most old people … are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others – guests who didn’t have the good manners to leave when the party was over.
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