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.
BARBARA WALTERSWhen you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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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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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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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 good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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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[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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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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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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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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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