To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
BARBARA WALTERSA conversation isn’t a competition.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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 confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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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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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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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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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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Although 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.
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Work 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.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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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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Although 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.
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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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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.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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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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When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
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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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People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can’t get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You’re paying your membership dues in the human race.
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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.
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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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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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