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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.

Barbara Walters

Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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Blunt Confusion Stimulation
A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Competition Conversation Practice
If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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Dead Drop Gorgeous Kind Tree
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 Guard Moments Reveal Self Sleep True
The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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Hard Trust Willing Yourself
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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Literature Poetic Thinking
I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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Heart Myself People Sleep
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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Lines People Rumor
It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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Believe Men Nice
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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Interviewing Someone Thinking
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
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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Approval Comfortable Man
Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
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Adults Children Party
Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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Children Sex Way
Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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Children God Punishment Sex Way
The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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Feeling Image Myself Personality

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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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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