To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I’ve done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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Après ski is my favorite sport.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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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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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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Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don’t know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I’ve rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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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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