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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.

Barbara Walters

The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn’t perfect at any age – drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter – but it is almost non-existent in old people.
BARBARA WALTERS

People Perfect Talking
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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Feelings Jobs Women
Work 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.
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Everybody Hard Quitting Shout Work
Après ski is my favorite sport.
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Favorite Skis Sports
If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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Kind Tree Yourself
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.
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Famous Greatness Myself Party People Rare Recover Technique
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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New Party Person Shallow Year
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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Command Greatness Intelligence People Thinking Willing Word
Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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Dog Love You Parent
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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Cuba Earth Yardsticks
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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Basic Better Feeling Goodness Man Nice World
People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can’t get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You’re paying your membership dues in the human race.
BARBARA WALTERS

Compassion Race Self
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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Conversation Jobs Land
Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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Attractive Males Percentage
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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Background Better Information Myself Party World
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Dreams Excel Gain Life Personal Reach Yourself

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