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 WALTERSParents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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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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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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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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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.
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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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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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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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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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