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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.

Barbara Walters

[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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Change Grave Hands Live Myself
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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Crazy Genius People
Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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Gossip People Relationship
[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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Leadership Reality Voting
Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
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Adults Children Party
A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Competition Conversation Practice
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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Food Friendship Human Modern Origin Share
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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Hard Work Quit Shout Yourself
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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Everything Heaven Literature Sex
If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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Authority Man Woman
I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews ‘fiery debates.’ During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.
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Democracy Together Years
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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Comfortable Fact Offend Position Reason Unfortunate
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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New Party Person Shallow Year
If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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Dead Drop Gorgeous Kind Tree
When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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Blame Children Trouble Yourself
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 Guard Moments Reveal Self Sleep True

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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