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.
BARBARA WALTERSBut 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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All of the religions – with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn’t believe in a heaven – teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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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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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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