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Barbara Walters

New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It’s a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
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Adventure Children Energy Fast Galaxy Stand
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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Food Friendship Human Modern Origin Share
[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.
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Leadership Reality Voting
Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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Gossip Interest Myself People
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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Causes Facts Unfortunate
If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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Dead Drop Gorgeous Kind Tree
Work harder than everybody. You’re not going to get it by whining, and you’re not going to get it by shouting, and you’re not going to get it by quitting. You’re going to get it by being there.
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Hard Work Quit Shout 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
A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Competition Conversation
Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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Blunt Brainstorming Women
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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Obscure People Thinking
Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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Down Low Yourself
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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Fire Hug President
The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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Bigger Castro Feelings
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 Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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Heaven Idea Myself Novel

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