Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
BARBARA WALTERSWhen your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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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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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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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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.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
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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.
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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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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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And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it’s enormously comforting to believe that you’re going to see your loved ones.
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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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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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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.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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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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Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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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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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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