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 WALTERSEvery genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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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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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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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 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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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