To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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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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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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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It 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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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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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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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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