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.
BARBARA WALTERSDon’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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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 hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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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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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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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 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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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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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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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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The news media in general are liberals.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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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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 worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead.
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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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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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It’s a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
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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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