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.
BARBARA WALTERSMost of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
-
-
The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
BARBARA WALTERS -
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.
BARBARA WALTERS -
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
BARBARA WALTERS -
Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
BARBARA WALTERS -
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
BARBARA WALTERS -
politics … is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It’s not only a conversation-wrecker, it’s a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.
BARBARA WALTERS -
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
BARBARA WALTERS -
Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
BARBARA WALTERS -
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
BARBARA WALTERS -
I didn’t have a very religious family.
BARBARA 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 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 WALTERS -
I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
BARBARA WALTERS -
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.
BARBARA WALTERS -
If it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
BARBARA WALTERS -
The news media in general are liberals.
BARBARA WALTERS -
Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
BARBARA WALTERS -
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
BARBARA WALTERS -
If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
BARBARA WALTERS -
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
BARBARA WALTERS -
[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
BARBARA WALTERS -
A conversation isn’t a competition.
BARBARA WALTERS -
Work harder than everybody. You’re not going to get it by whining, and you’re not going to get it by shouting, and you’re not going to get it by quitting. You’re going to get it by being there.
BARBARA WALTERS -
I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
BARBARA 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 WALTERS -
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.
BARBARA WALTERS