A conversation isn’t a competition.
BARBARA WALTERSThe origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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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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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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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It’s a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
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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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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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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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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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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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