Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
BARBARA WALTERSLife 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another’s life.
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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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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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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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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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New 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.
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