Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
BARBARA WALTERSEvery 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it’s enormously comforting to believe that you’re going to see your loved ones.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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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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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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Après ski is my favorite sport.
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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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