If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
BARBARA WALTERSA 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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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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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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The news media in general are liberals.
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The news media in general are liberals.
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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 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.
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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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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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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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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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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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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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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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