Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
BARBARA WALTERSpolitics … 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
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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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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I’ve done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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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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I 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.
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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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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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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
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Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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