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.
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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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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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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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politics … is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It’s not only a conversation-wrecker, it’s a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It’s a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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