I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
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The word ‘charismatic’ was made for Fidel Castro. You would have liked him, I would have liked him. Then you had to stop and say, ‘Just a minute. This is a man who does not believe in freedom of the press…does not believe in democracy as we know democracy, had political prisoners.’
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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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If it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
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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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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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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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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’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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