I didn’t have a very religious family.
BARBARA WALTERSDon’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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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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The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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Don’t worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn’t.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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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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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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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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Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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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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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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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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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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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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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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The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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