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.
BARBARA WALTERSThe origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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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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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 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.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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The word ‘charismatic’ was made for Fidel Castro. You would have liked him, I would have liked him. Then you had to stop and say, ‘Just a minute. This is a man who does not believe in freedom of the press…does not believe in democracy as we know democracy, had political prisoners.’
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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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The news media in general are liberals.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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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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