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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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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Don’t worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead.
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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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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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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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All of the religions – with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn’t believe in a heaven – teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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 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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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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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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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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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