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.
BARBARA WALTERSWhen you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
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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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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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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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 man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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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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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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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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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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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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