Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
BARBARA WALTERSA job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
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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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about 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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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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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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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
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The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn’t perfect at any age – drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter – but it is almost non-existent in old people.
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politics … is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It’s not only a conversation-wrecker, it’s a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.
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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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