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.
BARBARA WALTERSTo not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I’ve done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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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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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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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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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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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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