Most old people … are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others – guests who didn’t have the good manners to leave when the party was over.
BARBARA WALTERSThe news media in general are liberals.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be — I shouldn’t say this at Christmastime — but the next messiah.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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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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All of the religions – with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn’t believe in a heaven – teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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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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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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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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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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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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