The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn’t perfect at any age – drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter – but it is almost non-existent in old people.
BARBARA WALTERSTo 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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The word ‘charismatic’ was made for Fidel Castro. You would have liked him, I would have liked him. Then you had to stop and say, ‘Just a minute. This is a man who does not believe in freedom of the press…does not believe in democracy as we know democracy, had political prisoners.’
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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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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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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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