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.
BARBARA WALTERSBeing a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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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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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The news media in general are liberals.
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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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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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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 authoritative.
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Most old people … are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others – guests who didn’t have the good manners to leave when the party was over.
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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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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews ‘fiery debates.’ During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.
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I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code – even though it was a great yawn – also showed people’s interest in religion.
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But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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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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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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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
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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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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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