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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.

Barbara Walters

[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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Change Grave Hands Live Myself
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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New Party Person Shallow Year
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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Better Goodness Interview Laughter
If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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Caustic Men Women
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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Everybody Hard Quitting Shout Work
Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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Blunt Brainstorming Women
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
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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Depend Myself People Rumor Taste
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
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
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
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
I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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Myself Office Personal Relationship Thinking Work
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
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
Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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Gossip People Relationship

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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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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