To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another’s life.
BARBARA WALTERSNo one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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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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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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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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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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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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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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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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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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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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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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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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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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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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.
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