Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
BARBARA WALTERSIf you were a tree, what kind would you be?
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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politics … is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It’s not only a conversation-wrecker, it’s a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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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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If it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
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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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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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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It’s a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
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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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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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For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
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