New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It’s a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
BARBARA WALTERSThe 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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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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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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Work harder than everybody. You’re not going to get it by whining, and you’re not going to get it by shouting, and you’re not going to get it by quitting. You’re going to get it by being there.
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.
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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
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Although I myself don’t go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it’s superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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