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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.

Barbara Walters

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
A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Competition Conversation Practice
Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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Celebrity Defensive Found Mechanism
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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Church Literature Superstitions
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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Approval Made Men
Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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Attractive Males Percentage
Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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Attraction Compare Sales Woman
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
I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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Enough Myself Unknown Yourself
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
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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Admire Juggle Meet Myself Trouble
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
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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People Perfect Talking
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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New Party Person Shallow Year
Because there are so many shows on and because I’ve been so hands-on – I’ve had a piece on almost every single week – I don’t know how to cut back on that. You really can’t.
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Hands Pieces Show Yourself
I didn’t have a very religious family.
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Family Myself Religious

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