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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.

Barbara Walters

Après ski is my favorite sport.
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Favorite Skis Sports
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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Obscure People Thinking
Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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Best Business Entrepreneur Entrepreneurs Successful
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Command Greatness Intelligence People Thinking Willing Word
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.
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Achievement Boston Kind
Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
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Difficult Hard Life Purpose Willing Yourself
This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don’t fight the little fight… Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don’t whine, and don’t be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.
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Badass Battle Fighting
If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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Kind Tree Yourself
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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House Party People
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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Myself Prayer Religious Superstition Time
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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Airplane Clouds Rainbow
For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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Interview Like Men Talk
A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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Heaven Idea Myself Novel
Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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Admire Food Party Milk
A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Competition Conversation Practice
The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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Feeling Perspective Way Yourself

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