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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.

Barbara Walters

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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Conversation Jobs Land
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
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 Children Energy Fast Galaxy Stand
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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Hard Work Quit Shout Yourself
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
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Earth Education Freedom Literacy Nation Start
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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Humor Laughing Laughter
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
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Insecurity Smooth Success Way Yourself
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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Jobs Thinking Work
when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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Blame Children Firsts
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
A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Competition Conversation Practice
A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Competition Conversation
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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Children Help Small Training
[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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Leadership Reality Voting
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?
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Fire Hug President
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
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Cuba Earth Yardsticks
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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Famous Greatness Myself Party People Rare Recover Technique
It’s a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
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Causes Facts Unfortunate
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
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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Adults Children Party
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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New Party Person Shallow Year
It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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Believe Men Nice
Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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Gossip Interest Myself People
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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Myself Prayer Religious Superstition Time
The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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Feeling Perspective Way Yourself
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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Approval Comfortable Man

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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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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