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 WALTERSI didn’t have a very religious family.
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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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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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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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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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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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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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
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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 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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For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
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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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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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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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The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.
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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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And 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.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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Après ski is my favorite sport.
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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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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