When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
BARBARA WALTERSIt 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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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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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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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 authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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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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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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