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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 Walters

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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Food Friendship Human Modern Origin Share
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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Dangerous Family Future Job Land Politics Subject
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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Insecurity Smooth Success Way Yourself
I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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Heart Myself People Sleep
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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Crazy Genius People
For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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Interview Man Talk
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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Hands Pieces Show Yourself
This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don’t fight the little fight… Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don’t whine, and don’t be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.
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Badass Battle Fighting
If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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Kind Tree Yourself
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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Church Literature Superstitions
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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Believe Comfortable Earth Important Love Yourself
[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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Leadership Reality Voting
Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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Defensive Mechanism Oysters Same Used
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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Adventure Children Energy Fast Galaxy Stand
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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Approval Made Men
I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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Enough Myself Unknown Yourself

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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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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