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.
BARBARA WALTERSIt’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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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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 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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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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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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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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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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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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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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.
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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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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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