[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be — I shouldn’t say this at Christmastime — but the next messiah.
BARBARA WALTERSThe news media in general are liberals.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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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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Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don’t know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I’ve rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
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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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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews ‘fiery debates.’ During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?
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