If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
BARBARA WALTERSSmall children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
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politics … is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It’s not only a conversation-wrecker, it’s a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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Because there are so many shows on and because I’ve been so hands-on – I’ve had a piece on almost every single week – I don’t know how to cut back on that. You really can’t.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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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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Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
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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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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