Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
BARBARA WALTERSTo 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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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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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be — I shouldn’t say this at Christmastime — but the next messiah.
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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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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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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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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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