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.
BARBARA WALTERSAnd 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It’s a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
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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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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 found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code – even though it was a great yawn – also showed people’s interest in religion.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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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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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 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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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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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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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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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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All of the religions – with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn’t believe in a heaven – teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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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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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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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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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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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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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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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