To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I’ve done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
BARBARA WALTERSDeep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Although I myself don’t go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it’s superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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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.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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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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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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All of the religions – with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn’t believe in a heaven – teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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