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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.

Barbara Walters

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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Everything Heaven Literature Sex
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Basic Better Feeling Goodness Man Nice World
when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
BARBARA WALTERS

Blame Children Firsts
politics … is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It’s not only a conversation-wrecker, it’s a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.
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Conversation Jobs Land
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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Famous Greatness Myself Party People Rare Recover Technique
Work 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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Hard Work Quit Shout Yourself
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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Causes Facts Unfortunate
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
BARBARA WALTERS

Humor Laughing Laughter
Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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Instance Milk Party
If it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
BARBARA WALTERS

Authority Literature Men
The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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Bigger Castro Feelings
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Cutting Hands Pieces
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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Adults Children Party
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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Dinner Guests Nbc Party
When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
BARBARA WALTERS

Control Interview Thinking Yourself
[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
BARBARA WALTERS

Hands Should Have Want

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