I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
BARBARA WALTERS[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn’t perfect at any age – drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter – but it is almost non-existent in old people.
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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.
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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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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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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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The news media in general are liberals.
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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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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews ‘fiery debates.’ During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn’t.
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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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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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