A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERSDeep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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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.
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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 was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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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.
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This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don’t fight the little fight… Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don’t whine, and don’t be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It’s a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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