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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.

Barbara Walters

I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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Myself Office Personal Relationship Thinking Work
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.
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Accent Beautiful Kind Myself Thinking
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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Control Interview Thinking Yourself
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

Difficult Hard Life Purpose Willing Yourself
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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Believe Buddhism Heaven
Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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Children God Punishment Sex Way
The news media in general are liberals.
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General Liberty Media
I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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Heart Myself People Sleep
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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Condition General Human Liberal Media Misery Poverty Report
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

Myself Prayer Religious Superstition Time
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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Children Guard Moments Reveal Self Sleep True
I didn’t have a very religious family.
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Family Myself Religious
[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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Hands Should Have Want
Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
BARBARA WALTERS

Children Family Inspirational
I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
BARBARA WALTERS

Different Education Heaven Life Meaning Religious Version
If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
BARBARA WALTERS

Dead Drop Gorgeous Kind Tree

[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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