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 WALTERSI didn’t have a very religious family.
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The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.
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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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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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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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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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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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Although I myself don’t go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it’s superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I’ve done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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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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