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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.

Barbara Walters

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
Work harder than everybody. You’re not going to get it by whining, and you’re not going to get it by shouting, and you’re not going to get it by quitting. You’re going to get it by being there.
BARBARA WALTERS

Everybody Hard Quitting Shout Work
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
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
BARBARA WALTERS

Admire Juggle Meet Myself Trouble
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

Believe Men Nice
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

Condition General Human Liberal Media Misery Poverty Report
[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
BARBARA WALTERS

Change Grave Hands Live Myself
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Lines People Rumor
The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
BARBARA WALTERS

Clothes Dresses People
When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
BARBARA WALTERS

Blame Children Trouble Yourself
Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
BARBARA WALTERS

Gossip Interest Myself People
To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
BARBARA WALTERS

Feelings Jobs Women
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 WALTERS

Achievement Boston Kind
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Adventure Children Energy Fast Galaxy Stand
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Church Literature Superstitions
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
BARBARA WALTERS

New Party Person Shallow Year

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