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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More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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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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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn’t.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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Work harder than everybody. You’re not going to get it by whining, and you’re not going to get it by shouting, and you’re not going to get it by quitting. You’re going to get it by being there.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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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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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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 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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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