I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
BARBARA WALTERSLarge 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I’ve done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn’t.
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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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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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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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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 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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can’t get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You’re paying your membership dues in the human race.
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