Don’t let the bastards get you down.
BARBARA WALTERSSuccess 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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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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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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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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If it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
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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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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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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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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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[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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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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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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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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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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 conversation isn’t a competition.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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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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But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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