Barbara Walters Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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.”
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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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“Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy”
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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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“This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don't fight the little fight... Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don't whine, and don't be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.”
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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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“A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.”
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“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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“To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.”
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“Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.”
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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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“The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.”
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“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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“I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.”
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“Don't let the bastards get you down,”
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“If you were a tree, what kind would you be?”
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“I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!”
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“The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.”
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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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“when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.”
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“Most old people ... are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others - guests who didn't have the good manners to leave when the party was over.”
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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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“Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.”
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“If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.”
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“For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth. The literacy rate is 96 percent.”
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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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“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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“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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“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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