Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
BARBARA WALTERSI 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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