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.
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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another’s life.
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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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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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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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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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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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But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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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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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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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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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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I’ve done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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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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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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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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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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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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