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 WALTERSIf it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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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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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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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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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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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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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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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A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
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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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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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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Don’t worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead.
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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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