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.
BARBARA WALTERSA Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
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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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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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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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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.
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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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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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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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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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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 man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn’t perfect at any age – drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter – but it is almost non-existent in old people.
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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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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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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It’s a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
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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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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it’s enormously comforting to believe that you’re going to see your loved ones.
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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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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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