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.
BARBARA WALTERSParents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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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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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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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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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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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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 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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