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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!

Barbara Walters

A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERS

Approval Comfortable Man
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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Party People Technique
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

Causes Facts Unfortunate
Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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Dog Love You Parent
Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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Defensive Mechanism Oysters Same Used
Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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Attraction Compare Sales Woman
[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
BARBARA WALTERS

Change Grave Hands Live Myself
Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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Blunt Brainstorming Women
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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Accent Beautiful Kind Myself Thinking
when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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Blame Children Firsts
I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn’t.
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Depend Myself People Rumor Taste
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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Modern Party Share
For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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Interview Like Men Talk
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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Adventure Country Moving
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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New Party Person Shallow Year
Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
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Airplane Clouds Rainbow

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