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.
BARBARA WALTERSI found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code – even though it was a great yawn – also showed people’s interest in religion.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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Although I myself don’t go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it’s superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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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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 Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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First 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.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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