Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
BARBARA WALTERSThe aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn’t perfect at any age – drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter – but it is almost non-existent in old people.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It’s a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
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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 get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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Most old people … are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others – guests who didn’t have the good manners to leave when the party was over.
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Although I myself don’t go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it’s superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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The news media in general are liberals.
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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.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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.
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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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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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Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.
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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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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
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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 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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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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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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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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