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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.

Barbara Walters

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
BARBARA WALTERS

Feeling Job Value Yourself
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

People Perfect Talking
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
BARBARA WALTERS

Breathe Deep Party Shallow
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Believe Comfortable Earth Important Love Yourself
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Beyond Cloud Finding Myself Place Thinking
For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
BARBARA WALTERS

Interview Like Men Talk
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
BARBARA WALTERS

Cuba Earth Yardsticks
A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
BARBARA WALTERS

Jobs Thinking Work
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
BARBARA WALTERS

Dinner Guests Nbc Party
[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
BARBARA WALTERS

Hands Should Have Want
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
BARBARA WALTERS

Admire Juggle Meet Myself Trouble
Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
BARBARA WALTERS

Gossip People Relationship
I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews ‘fiery debates.’ During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.
BARBARA WALTERS

Democracy Together Years
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
BARBARA WALTERS

Children Self Sleep
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Party People Technique
If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
BARBARA WALTERS

Dead Drop Gorgeous Kind Tree

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