Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
BARBARA WALTERSLarge 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 didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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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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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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Most old people … are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others – guests who didn’t have the good manners to leave when the party was over.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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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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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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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can’t get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You’re paying your membership dues in the human race.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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