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.
BARBARA WALTERSA Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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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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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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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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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 don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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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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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can’t get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You’re paying your membership dues in the human race.
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