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.
BARBARA WALTERSThe 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.
BARBARA WALTERSNew York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It’s a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
BARBARA WALTERSShow me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
BARBARA WALTERSThe origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
BARBARA WALTERSwhen your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
BARBARA WALTERSWhen you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
BARBARA WALTERSFor a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
BARBARA WALTERSEvery genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.
BARBARA WALTERSWork 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.
BARBARA WALTERSA man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERSThe origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
BARBARA WALTERSDeep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
BARBARA WALTERSSuccess 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.
BARBARA WALTERSAlthough 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.
BARBARA WALTERSBefore 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.
BARBARA WALTERSChildren are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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