A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
BARBARA WALTERSDon’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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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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Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.
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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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I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
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All of the religions – with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn’t believe in a heaven – teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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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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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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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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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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And 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.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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