The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
BARBARA WALTERSThe news media in general are liberals.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
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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 found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code – even though it was a great yawn – also showed people’s interest in religion.
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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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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
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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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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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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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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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