I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.
BARBARA WALTERS
Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.
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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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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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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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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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Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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Because there are so many shows on and because I’ve been so hands-on – I’ve had a piece on almost every single week – I don’t know how to cut back on that. You really can’t.
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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 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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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
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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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The news media in general are liberals.
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