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.
BARBARA WALTERSEvery genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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The news media in general are liberals.
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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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Because there are so many shows on and because I’ve been so hands-on – I’ve had a piece on almost every single week – I don’t know how to cut back on that. You really can’t.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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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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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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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
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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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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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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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