A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.
BARBARA WALTERSI don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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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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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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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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I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.
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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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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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The news media in general are liberals.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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