Don’t let the bastards get you down.
BARBARA WALTERSWait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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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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Don’t worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead.
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The news media in general are liberals.
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Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don’t know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I’ve rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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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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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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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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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