Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
BARBARA WALTERSIf you were a tree, what kind would you be?
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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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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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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.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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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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Après ski is my favorite sport.
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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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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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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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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.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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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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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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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[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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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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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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.
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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.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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