People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can’t get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You’re paying your membership dues in the human race.
BARBARA WALTERSLife 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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Après ski is my favorite sport.
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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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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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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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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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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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Work harder than everybody. You’re not going to get it by whining, and you’re not going to get it by shouting, and you’re not going to get it by quitting. You’re going to get it by being there.
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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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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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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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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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