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.
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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Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don’t know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I’ve rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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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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The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn’t perfect at any age – drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter – but it is almost non-existent in old people.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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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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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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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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