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.
BARBARA WALTERSBut 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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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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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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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The news media in general are liberals.
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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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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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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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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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