Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
BARBARA WALTERSA man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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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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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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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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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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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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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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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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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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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I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.
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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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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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