A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
BARBARA WALTERSNo one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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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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Life 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.
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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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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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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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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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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.’
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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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The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn’t perfect at any age – drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter – but it is almost non-existent in old people.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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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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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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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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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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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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I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews ‘fiery debates.’ During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.
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