To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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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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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It’s a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
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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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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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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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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