[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.
BARBARA WALTERSThe hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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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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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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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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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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The news media in general are liberals.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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It’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.
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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
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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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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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