Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
BARBARA WALTERSwhen your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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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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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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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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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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If it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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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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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 you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
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I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code – even though it was a great yawn – also showed people’s interest in religion.
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The news media in general are liberals.
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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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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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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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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[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be — I shouldn’t say this at Christmastime — but the next messiah.
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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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