Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
BARBARA WALTERS[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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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The news media in general are liberals.
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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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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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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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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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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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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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.
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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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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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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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