A conversation isn’t a competition.
BARBARA WALTERSHomogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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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People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can’t get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You’re paying your membership dues in the human race.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn’t.
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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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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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All of the religions – with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn’t believe in a heaven – teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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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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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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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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