If it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
BARBARA WALTERSLarge 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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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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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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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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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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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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Après ski is my favorite sport.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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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