Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
BARBARA WALTERSDon’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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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The news media in general are liberals.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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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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The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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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 didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another’s life.
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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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