If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
BARBARA WALTERSShow me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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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.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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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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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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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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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Although I myself don’t go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it’s superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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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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