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.
BARBARA WALTERSShow me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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.
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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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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.
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I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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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.
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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.’
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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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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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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