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.
BARBARA WALTERSA man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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The news media in general are liberals.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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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.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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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.
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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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