Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
BARBARA WALTERSI can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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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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People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can’t get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You’re paying your membership dues in the human race.
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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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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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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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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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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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