A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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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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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I’ve done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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Après ski is my favorite sport.
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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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A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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 don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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