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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.

Barbara Walters

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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Achievement Boston Kind
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

Authority Literature Men
I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
BARBARA WALTERS

Atheist City Equal Pay Sin
I didn’t have a very religious family.
BARBARA WALTERS

Religious Religious Family
Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
BARBARA WALTERS

Children Family Inspirational
To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another’s life.
BARBARA WALTERS

Dreams Excel Gain Life Personal Reach Yourself
The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn’t perfect at any age – drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter – but it is almost non-existent in old people.
BARBARA WALTERS

People Perfect Talking
I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
BARBARA WALTERS

Benefits Office Thinking
Most old people … are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others – guests who didn’t have the good manners to leave when the party was over.
BARBARA WALTERS

House Party People
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Bears Challenges Purpose
For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
BARBARA WALTERS

Interview Like Men Talk
I didn’t have a very religious family.
BARBARA WALTERS

Family Myself Religious
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Believe Comfortable Earth Important Love Yourself
The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
BARBARA WALTERS

Feeling Image Myself Personality
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
BARBARA WALTERS

Earth Education Freedom Literacy Nation Start
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

Comfortable Fact Offend Position Reason Unfortunate

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.

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