I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
BARBARA WALTERSAlthough 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
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I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews ‘fiery debates.’ During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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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 was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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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 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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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
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