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I didn’t have a very religious family.

Barbara Walters

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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Background Better Information Myself Party World
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

Nice Success Women
[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
BARBARA WALTERS

Hands Should Have Want
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
BARBARA WALTERS

New Party Person Shallow Year
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
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

Authority Literature Men
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Media News Want
The word ‘charismatic’ was made for Fidel Castro. You would have liked him, I would have liked him. Then you had to stop and say, ‘Just a minute. This is a man who does not believe in freedom of the press…does not believe in democracy as we know democracy, had political prisoners.’
BARBARA WALTERS

Believe Men Political
[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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Leadership Reality Voting
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Command Greatness Intelligence People Thinking Willing Word
For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
BARBARA WALTERS

Interview Man Talk
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

Dangerous Family Future Job Land Politics Subject
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Bears Challenges Purpose
A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
BARBARA WALTERS

Jobs Thinking Work
Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
BARBARA WALTERS

Blunt Confusion Stimulation
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
BARBARA WALTERS

Humor Laughing Laughter

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