Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
BARBARA WALTERSWhen you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
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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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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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Because there are so many shows on and because I’ve been so hands-on – I’ve had a piece on almost every single week – I don’t know how to cut back on that. You really can’t.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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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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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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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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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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Because there are so many shows on and because I’ve been so hands-on – I’ve had a piece on almost every single week – I don’t know how to cut back on that. You really can’t.
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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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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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