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.
BARBARA WALTERSThe 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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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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All of the religions – with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn’t believe in a heaven – teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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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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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.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
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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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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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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.
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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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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.
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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 think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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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