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.
BARBARA WALTERSThe way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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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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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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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 didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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.
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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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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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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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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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