I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
BARBARA WALTERSThis is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don’t fight the little fight… Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don’t whine, and don’t be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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[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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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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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
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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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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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