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.
BARBARA WALTERSWait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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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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The word ‘charismatic’ was made for Fidel Castro. You would have liked him, I would have liked him. Then you had to stop and say, ‘Just a minute. This is a man who does not believe in freedom of the press…does not believe in democracy as we know democracy, had political prisoners.’
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Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.
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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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It’s a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
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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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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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