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.
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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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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 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 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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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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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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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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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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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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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.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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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 didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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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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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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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Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don’t fight the little fight… Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don’t whine, and don’t be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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The word ‘charismatic’ was made for Fidel Castro. You would have liked him, I would have liked him. Then you had to stop and say, ‘Just a minute. This is a man who does not believe in freedom of the press…does not believe in democracy as we know democracy, had political prisoners.’
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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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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