The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
BARBARA WALTERSHomogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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 news media in general are liberals.
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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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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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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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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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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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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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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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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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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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