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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.

Barbara Walters

[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
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
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Obscure People Thinking
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

Believe Men Political
The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
BARBARA WALTERS

Feeling Image Myself Personality
When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
BARBARA WALTERS

Control Interview Thinking Yourself
Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
BARBARA WALTERS

Admire Food Party Milk
I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code – even though it was a great yawn – also showed people’s interest in religion.
BARBARA WALTERS

Interesting People Spiritual
I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn’t.
BARBARA WALTERS

Depend Myself People Rumor Taste
If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
BARBARA WALTERS

Authority Man Woman
Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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Children God Punishment Sex Way
Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
BARBARA WALTERS

Attraction Compare Sales Woman
I didn’t have a very religious family.
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Religious Religious Family
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
BARBARA WALTERS

Literature Poetic Thinking
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

Heart President Worry
I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
BARBARA WALTERS

Heart Myself People Sleep

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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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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