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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.

Barbara Walters

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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Badass Battle Fighting
A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
BARBARA WALTERS

Heaven Idea Myself Novel
Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
BARBARA WALTERS

Gossip Interest Myself People
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Everybody Hard Quitting Shout Work
Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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Children God Punishment Sex Way
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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Approval Comfortable Man
Don’t worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead.
BARBARA WALTERS

Heart President Worry
Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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Celebrity Defensive Found Mechanism
Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
BARBARA WALTERS

Admire Food Party Milk
To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
BARBARA WALTERS

Feelings Jobs Women
The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
BARBARA WALTERS

Clothes Dresses People
To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another’s life.
BARBARA WALTERS

Dreams Excel Gain Life Personal Reach Yourself
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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Children Enchant Parents Willing Young
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Hands Pieces Show Yourself
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Education Mean Religious
The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
BARBARA WALTERS

Food Friendship Human Modern Origin Share

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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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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