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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.

Barbara Walters

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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Achievement Boston Kind
The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
BARBARA WALTERS

Food Friendship Human Modern Origin Share
First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
BARBARA WALTERS

Christian Literature Religion
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
BARBARA WALTERS

New Party Person Shallow Year
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
BARBARA WALTERS

Breathe Deep Party Shallow
Every 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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Acceptance Classification Crazy Difficult Genius People Understand
I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
BARBARA WALTERS

Myself Office Personal Relationship Thinking Work
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Badass Battle Fighting
The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
BARBARA WALTERS

Bigger Castro Feelings
To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
BARBARA WALTERS

Feelings Jobs Women
Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
BARBARA WALTERS

Admire Food Party Milk
The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
BARBARA WALTERS

Drawn Hardest Motivation Trust Yourself
It’s a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
BARBARA WALTERS

Comfortable Fact Offend Position Reason Unfortunate
I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
BARBARA WALTERS

Benefits Office Thinking
The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.
BARBARA WALTERS

Condition General Human Liberal Media Misery Poverty Report
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Party People Technique

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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