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Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

Barbara Walters

Après ski is my favorite sport.
BARBARA WALTERS

Favorite Skis Sports
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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Approval Made Men
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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Party People Technique
All of the religions – with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn’t believe in a heaven – teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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Believe Buddhism Heaven
And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it’s enormously comforting to believe that you’re going to see your loved ones.
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Believe Comfortable Earth Important Love Yourself
Don’t worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead.
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Heart President Worry
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
Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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Children Family Inspirational
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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Better Goodness Interview Laughter
If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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Kind Tree Yourself
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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Myself Prayer Religious Superstition Time
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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Control Interview Thinking Yourself
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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New Party Person Shallow Year
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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Approval Comfortable Man
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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Food Friendship Human Modern Origin Share

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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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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