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.
BARBARA WALTERSBut 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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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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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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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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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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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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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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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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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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