No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
BARBARA WALTERSIt’s a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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Après ski is my favorite sport.
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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 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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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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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.
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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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People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can’t get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You’re paying your membership dues in the human race.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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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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The news media in general are liberals.
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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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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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