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 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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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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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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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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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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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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Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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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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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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