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.
BARBARA WALTERSI think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn’t perfect at any age – drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter – but it is almost non-existent in old people.
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Après ski is my favorite sport.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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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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I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
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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 news media in general are liberals.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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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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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It’s a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
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