A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
BARBARA WALTERSThe way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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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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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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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another’s life.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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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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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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People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can’t get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You’re paying your membership dues in the human race.
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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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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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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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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And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it’s enormously comforting to believe that you’re going to see your loved ones.
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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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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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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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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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.
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