I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
BARBARA WALTERSBecause 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust 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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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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Although I myself don’t go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it’s superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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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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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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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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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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