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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.

Barbara Walters

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 WALTERS

Achievement Boston Kind
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Bears Challenges Purpose
When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
BARBARA WALTERS

Control Interview Thinking Yourself
The word ‘charismatic’ was made for Fidel Castro. You would have liked him, I would have liked him. Then you had to stop and say, ‘Just a minute. This is a man who does not believe in freedom of the press…does not believe in democracy as we know democracy, had political prisoners.’
BARBARA WALTERS

Believe Men Political
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Dreams Excel Gain Life Personal Reach Yourself
Après ski is my favorite sport.
BARBARA WALTERS

Favorite Skis Sports
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Lines People Rumor
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Everything Heaven Literature Sex
[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be — I shouldn’t say this at Christmastime — but the next messiah.
BARBARA WALTERS

Leadership Reality Voting
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Aggression Authority Best Man Woman Word
I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
BARBARA WALTERS

Myself Office Personal Relationship Thinking Work
Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
BARBARA WALTERS

Big Complain Early Fight Job Stay
I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
BARBARA WALTERS

Education Mean Religious
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERS

Approval Comfortable Man
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Causes Facts Unfortunate
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERS

Approval Made Men

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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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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