Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
BARBARA WALTERSWork 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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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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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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I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code – even though it was a great yawn – also showed people’s interest in religion.
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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 didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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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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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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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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