Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
BARBARA WALTERSIt would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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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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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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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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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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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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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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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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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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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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