To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
BARBARA WALTERSWhen your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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Après ski is my favorite sport.
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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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Although I myself don’t go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it’s superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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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 Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
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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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