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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.

— Barbara Walters

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I can have respect and admiration for famous people, but I have never had a sense of fear or awe.

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.

What kind of tree are you, if you think you're a tree now?

Interview with Katharine Hepburn (1981)

We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime -- but the next messiah.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

How to Talk With Practically Anybody About Practically Anything (1970)

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Confucius

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

Martin Buber Between Man and Man (1965)

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

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