When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
BARBARA WALTERSCelebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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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But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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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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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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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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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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Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
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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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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.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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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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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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When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
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