Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
BARBARA WALTERSTo feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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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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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[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be — I shouldn’t say this at Christmastime — but the next messiah.
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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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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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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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The news media in general are liberals.
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This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don’t fight the little fight… Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don’t whine, and don’t be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.
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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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