Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
BARBARA WALTERSA 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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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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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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Every 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.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews ‘fiery debates.’ During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.
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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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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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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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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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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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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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