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BARBARA WALTERSWhen your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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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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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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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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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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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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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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Après ski is my favorite sport.
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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.
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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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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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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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow 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 also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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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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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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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