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 WALTERSAnd I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it’s enormously comforting to believe that you’re going to see your loved ones.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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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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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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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 news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.
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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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews ‘fiery debates.’ During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.
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