I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
BARBARA WALTERSParents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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I 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.
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Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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politics … is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It’s not only a conversation-wrecker, it’s a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
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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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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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Work harder than everybody. You’re not going to get it by whining, and you’re not going to get it by shouting, and you’re not going to get it by quitting. You’re going to get it by being there.
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