Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
BARBARA WALTERSBefore 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.
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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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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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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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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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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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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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 liberals.
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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 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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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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The word ‘charismatic’ was made for Fidel Castro. You would have liked him, I would have liked him. Then you had to stop and say, ‘Just a minute. This is a man who does not believe in freedom of the press…does not believe in democracy as we know democracy, had political prisoners.’
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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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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