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When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.

Barbara Walters

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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Hands Pieces Show Yourself
If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
BARBARA WALTERS

Authority Man Woman
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Basic Better Feeling Goodness Man Nice World
I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
BARBARA WALTERS

Benefits Office Thinking
Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
BARBARA WALTERS

Children God Punishment Sex Way
Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
BARBARA WALTERS

Blunt Brainstorming Women
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Dream Gains Helping Others
Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
BARBARA WALTERS

Children Help Small Training
Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
BARBARA WALTERS

Adults Children Party
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
BARBARA WALTERS

Insecurity Smooth Success Way Yourself
And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it’s enormously comforting to believe that you’re going to see your loved ones.
BARBARA WALTERS

Believe Comfort Enormously Life Live Thinking
All of the religions – with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn’t believe in a heaven – teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
BARBARA WALTERS

Believe Buddhism Heaven
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 WALTERS

Conversation Jobs Land
Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don’t know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I’ve rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
BARBARA WALTERS

Famous Greatness Myself Party People Rare Recover Technique
The news media in general are liberals.
BARBARA WALTERS

Country Media News
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

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