Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
BARBARA WALTERSHomogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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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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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I’ve done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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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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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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I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
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To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another’s life.
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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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