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 WALTERSI 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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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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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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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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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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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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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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