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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.

Barbara Walters

Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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Down Low Yourself
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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Jobs Thinking Work
[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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Change Grave Hands Live Myself
Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
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Difficult Hard Life Purpose Willing Yourself
A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
BARBARA WALTERS

Career Change Job Life Myself Start Thinking
Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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Gossip People Relationship
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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Obscure People Thinking
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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Adventure Country Moving
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Dream Gains Helping Others
A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Competition Conversation Practice
I didn’t have a very religious family.
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Family Myself Religious
Après ski is my favorite sport.
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Favorite Skis Sports
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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Himself Poet Scripture Thinking
When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
BARBARA WALTERS

Blame Children Trouble Yourself
Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
BARBARA WALTERS

Bears Challenges Purpose
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
BARBARA WALTERS

Better Goodness Interview Laughter

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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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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