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.
BARBARA WALTERSEvery 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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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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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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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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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
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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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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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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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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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