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 WALTERSLife 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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Après ski is my favorite sport.
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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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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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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.
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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.
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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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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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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.
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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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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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.
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Because there are so many shows on and because I’ve been so hands-on – I’ve had a piece on almost every single week – I don’t know how to cut back on that. You really can’t.
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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.
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If it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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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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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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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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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