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 WALTERSThe 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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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.’
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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.
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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.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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