Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
BARBARA WALTERSMost attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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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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A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
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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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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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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.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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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 man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?
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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
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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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