A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERSCelebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
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Don’t worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead.
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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 didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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Because there are so many shows on and because I’ve been so hands-on – I’ve had a piece on almost every single week – I don’t know how to cut back on that. You really can’t.
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I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code – even though it was a great yawn – also showed people’s interest in religion.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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