Barbara Walters on control
Barbara Walters131 quotes“When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.”
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code – even though it was a great yawn – also showed people’s interest in religion.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters 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.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters 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.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another’s life.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters I didn’t have a very religious family.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters 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.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg I just want women to always feel in control. Because we’re capable, we’re so capable.
Nicki MinajNicki Minaj Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
PythagorasPythagoras Your reputation is in the hands of others. That’s what the reputation is. You can’t control that. The only thing you can control is your character.
Wayne DyerWayne Dyer If you don’t take control of your career, guess what? You’ll be stuck in the sunset watching the sunrise, I am thesunrise.
Nicki MinajNicki Minaj The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg It’s the responsibility of a president to lead by example and do everything in his power to get the pandemic under control.
Joe BidenJoe Biden White men have always controlled their wives’ wages.
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony
