[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
BARBARA WALTERSAnd 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow 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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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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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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The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.
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