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.
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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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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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 didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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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.
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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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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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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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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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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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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