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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.

Barbara Walters

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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Dream Gains Helping Others
If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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Caustic Men Women
A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Competition Conversation Practice
The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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Hard Trust Willing Yourself
The news media in general are liberals.
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General Liberty Media
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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Comfortable Fact Offend Position Reason Unfortunate
I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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Enough Myself Unknown Yourself
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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People Perfect Talking
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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Background Better Information Myself Party World
I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews ‘fiery debates.’ During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.
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Democracy Together Years
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
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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Children Self Sleep
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
The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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Drawn Hardest Motivation Trust Yourself
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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Believe Comfortable Earth Important Love Yourself
[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be — I shouldn’t say this at Christmastime — but the next messiah.
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Leadership Reality Voting

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