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.
BARBARA WALTERSIf you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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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Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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Don’t worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
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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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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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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 news media in general are liberals.
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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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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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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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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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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