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 WALTERSThe news media in general are liberals.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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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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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
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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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And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it’s enormously comforting to believe that you’re going to see your loved ones.
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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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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All of the religions – with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn’t believe in a heaven – teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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