Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
BARBARA WALTERSThe feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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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.
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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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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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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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Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
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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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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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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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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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Although I myself don’t go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it’s superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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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.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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