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.
BARBARA WALTERSAll of the religions – with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn’t believe in a heaven – teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
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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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Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don’t know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I’ve rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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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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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be — I shouldn’t say this at Christmastime — but the next messiah.
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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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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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