[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
BARBARA WALTERSIf you were a tree, what kind would you be?
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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 aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn’t perfect at any age – drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter – but it is almost non-existent in old people.
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Success 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.
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I’ve done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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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 origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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Success 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.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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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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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For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
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Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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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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If it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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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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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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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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