If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
BARBARA WALTERSNo one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
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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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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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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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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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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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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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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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.
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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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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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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.
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