I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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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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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
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Après ski is my favorite sport.
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But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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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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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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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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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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All 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.
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Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
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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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When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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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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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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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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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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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