I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
BARBARA WALTERSIt’s a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
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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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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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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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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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It’s a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
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This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don’t fight the little fight… Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don’t whine, and don’t be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.
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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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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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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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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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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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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A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can’t get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You’re paying your membership dues in the human race.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.
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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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