Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
BARBARA WALTERSA 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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 didn’t have a very religious family.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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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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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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Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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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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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