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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

Barbara Walters

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Breathe Deep Party Shallow
Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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Best Business Entrepreneur Entrepreneurs Successful
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
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Nice Success Women
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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Children Self Sleep
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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Dream Gains Helping Others
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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Acceptance Classification Crazy Difficult Genius People Understand
[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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Hands Should Have Want
Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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Attractive Males Percentage
Although I myself don’t go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it’s superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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Church Literature Superstitions
The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn’t perfect at any age – drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter – but it is almost non-existent in old people.
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People Perfect Talking
The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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Drawn Hardest Motivation Trust Yourself
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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Jobs Thinking Work
A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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Cream Heaven Ice Ideas
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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Children Enchant Parents Willing Young
Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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Creature Dog Love Parents Tough Wonderful Yourself
A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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Heaven Idea Myself Novel

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

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