Don’t let the bastards get you down.
BARBARA WALTERSA man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
-
-
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 WALTERS -
For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
BARBARA WALTERS -
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 -
The news media in general are liberals.
BARBARA WALTERS -
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
BARBARA WALTERS -
The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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 -
Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
BARBARA WALTERS -
I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
BARBARA WALTERS -
Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?
BARBARA WALTERS -
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERS -
Don’t worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead.
BARBARA WALTERS -
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 -
For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
BARBARA WALTERS -
Work harder than everybody. You’re not going to get it by whining, and you’re not going to get it by shouting, and you’re not going to get it by quitting. You’re going to get it by being there.
BARBARA WALTERS -
Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
BARBARA WALTERS -
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 -
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.’
BARBARA WALTERS -
Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
BARBARA WALTERS -
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.
BARBARA WALTERS -
The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
BARBARA WALTERS -
Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
BARBARA WALTERS -
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
BARBARA WALTERS -
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.
BARBARA WALTERS -
Don’t let the bastards get you down.
BARBARA WALTERS -
Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
BARBARA WALTERS