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.’
BARBARA WALTERSThe aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn’t perfect at any age – drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter – but it is almost non-existent in old people.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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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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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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The news media in general are liberals.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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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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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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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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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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