When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
BARBARA WALTERSShow me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Après ski is my favorite sport.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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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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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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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.
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I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.
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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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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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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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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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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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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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