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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.

Barbara Walters

Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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Gossip Interest Myself 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.
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Dream Gains Helping Others
Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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Instance Milk Party
The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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Clothes Dresses People
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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Believe Comfort Enormously Life Live Thinking
First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
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Christian Literature Religion
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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Command Greatness Intelligence People Thinking Willing Word
Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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Celebrity Defensive Found Mechanism
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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Obscure People Thinking
[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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Change Grave Hands Live Myself
Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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Gossip People Relationship
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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Approval Comfortable Man
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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Believe Comfortable Earth Important Love Yourself
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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Nice Success Women
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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New Party Person Shallow Year
Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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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.
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Feeling Job Value Yourself
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Breathe Deep Party Shallow
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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Adventure Country Moving
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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Dangerous Family Future Job Land Politics Subject
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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Humor Laughing Laughter
When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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Blame Children Trouble Yourself
The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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Drawn Hardest Motivation Trust Yourself
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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Feelings Jobs Women
I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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Girl Marriage Sleep
The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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Feeling Image Myself Personality
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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Children Self Sleep

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