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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

Barbara Walters

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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Insecurity Smooth Success Way Yourself
A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Competition Conversation Practice
Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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Children God Punishment Sex Way
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
Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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Attraction Compare Sales Woman
I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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Atheist City Equal Pay Sin
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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Acceptance Inspirational Women
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 news media in general are liberals.
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Country Media News
I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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Heart Myself People Sleep
Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don’t know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I’ve rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
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Famous Greatness Myself Party People Rare Recover Technique
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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Children Help Small Training
I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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Girl Marriage Sleep
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
For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
BARBARA WALTERS

Interview Like Men Talk
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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Approval Made Men

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