The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn’t perfect at any age – drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter – but it is almost non-existent in old people.
BARBARA WALTERSFor a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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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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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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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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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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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I’ve done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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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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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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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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