Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
BARBARA WALTERSWait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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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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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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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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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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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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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.
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