Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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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Because there are so many shows on and because I’ve been so hands-on – I’ve had a piece on almost every single week – I don’t know how to cut back on that. You really can’t.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
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It’s a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
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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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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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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.
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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
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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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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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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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