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 WALTERSMost of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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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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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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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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[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.
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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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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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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 didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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