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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.

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 People Relationship
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
When 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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Interviewing Someone Thinking
The word ‘charismatic’ was made for Fidel Castro. You would have liked him, I would have liked him. Then you had to stop and say, ‘Just a minute. This is a man who does not believe in freedom of the press…does not believe in democracy as we know democracy, had political prisoners.’
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Believe Men Political
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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Modern Party Share
Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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Defensive Mechanism Oysters Same Used
I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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Enough Myself Unknown Yourself
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
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Literature Poetic Thinking
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
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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Dinner Guests Nbc Party
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

Dream Gains Helping Others
Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?
BARBARA WALTERS

Fire Hug President
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 Children Energy Fast Galaxy Stand
Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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Down Low Yourself
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 Guard Moments Reveal Self Sleep True
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Conversation Jobs Land

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