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.
BARBARA WALTERSIf it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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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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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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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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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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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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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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The 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.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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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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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Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.
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Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
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