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.
BARBARA WALTERSThe hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don’t know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I’ve rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
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Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.
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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?
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I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code – even though it was a great yawn – also showed people’s interest in religion.
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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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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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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