The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
BARBARA WALTERSTo feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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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 old people … are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others – guests who didn’t have the good manners to leave when the party was over.
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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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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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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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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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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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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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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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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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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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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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