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.
BARBARA WALTERSwhen your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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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[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be — I shouldn’t say this at Christmastime — but the next messiah.
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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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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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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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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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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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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 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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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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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
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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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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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