Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
BARBARA WALTERSChildren are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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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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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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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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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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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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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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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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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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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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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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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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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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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For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
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