Although I myself don’t go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it’s superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
BARBARA WALTERSA good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Most old people … are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others – guests who didn’t have the good manners to leave when the party was over.
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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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Work harder than everybody. You’re not going to get it by whining, and you’re not going to get it by shouting, and you’re not going to get it by quitting. You’re going to get it by being there.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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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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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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The news media in general are liberals.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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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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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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