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 WALTERSWhen you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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 origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews ‘fiery debates.’ During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.
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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 news media in general are liberals.
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Most old people … are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others – guests who didn’t have the good manners to leave when the party was over.
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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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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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