Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
BARBARA WALTERSA man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn’t perfect at any age – drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter – but it is almost non-existent in old people.
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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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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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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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People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can’t get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You’re paying your membership dues in the human race.
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If it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
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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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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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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn’t.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be — I shouldn’t say this at Christmastime — but the next messiah.
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