A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
BARBARA WALTERSTo feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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.
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The news media in general are liberals.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I’ve done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.
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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 it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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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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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be — I shouldn’t say this at Christmastime — but the next messiah.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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