The 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.
BARBARA WALTERSFirst of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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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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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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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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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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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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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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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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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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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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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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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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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 think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.
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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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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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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