People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can’t get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You’re paying your membership dues in the human race.
BARBARA WALTERSFor Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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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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All of the religions – with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn’t believe in a heaven – teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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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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Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?
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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 didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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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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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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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Every 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.
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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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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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