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Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.

Barbara Walters

Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.
BARBARA WALTERS

Acceptance Classification Crazy Difficult Genius People Understand
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 WALTERS

Control Interview Thinking Yourself
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Beyond Cloud Finding Myself Place Thinking
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
BARBARA WALTERS

Better Goodness Interview Laughter
Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
BARBARA WALTERS

Blunt Confusion Stimulation
The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.
BARBARA WALTERS

Media News Want
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Conversation Jobs Land
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
BARBARA WALTERS

Humor Laughing Laughter
This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don’t fight the little fight… Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don’t whine, and don’t be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.
BARBARA WALTERS

Badass Battle Fighting
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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Command Greatness Intelligence People Thinking Willing Word
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Nice Success Women
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.’
BARBARA WALTERS

Believe Men Political
It’s a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
BARBARA WALTERS

Comfortable Fact Offend Position Reason Unfortunate
A conversation isn’t a competition.
BARBARA WALTERS

Competition Conversation Practice
Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
BARBARA WALTERS

Children Family Inspirational
To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another’s life.
BARBARA WALTERS

Dream Gains Helping Others

Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.

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