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.
BARBARA WALTERSFor Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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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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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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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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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I’ve done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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The news media in general are liberals.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can’t get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You’re paying your membership dues in the human race.
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The news media in general are liberals.
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When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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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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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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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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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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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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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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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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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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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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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