I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
BARBARA WALTERSMost old people … are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others – guests who didn’t have the good manners to leave when the party was over.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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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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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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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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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Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
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Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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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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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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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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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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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews ‘fiery debates.’ During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.
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