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 WALTERSIt’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.
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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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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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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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.
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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 think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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All of the religions – with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn’t believe in a heaven – teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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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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