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.
BARBARA WALTERSDon’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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 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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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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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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Après ski is my favorite sport.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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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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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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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 think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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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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