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.
BARBARA WALTERSIt 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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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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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 find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn’t.
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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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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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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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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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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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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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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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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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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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