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 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it’s enormously comforting to believe that you’re going to see your loved ones.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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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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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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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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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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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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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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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 news media in general are liberals.
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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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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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For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
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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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