[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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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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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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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If it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
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Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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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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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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