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.
BARBARA WALTERSLarge 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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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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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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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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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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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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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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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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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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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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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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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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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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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