I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
BARBARA WALTERSBeing a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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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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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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But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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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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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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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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politics … is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It’s not only a conversation-wrecker, it’s a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.
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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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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