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.
BARBARA WALTERSThe 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.’
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
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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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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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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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A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
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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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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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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.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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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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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
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