Most old people … are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others – guests who didn’t have the good manners to leave when the party was over.
BARBARA WALTERSA job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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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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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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Après ski is my favorite sport.
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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 conversation isn’t a competition.
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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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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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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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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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But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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