I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
BARBARA WALTERSA man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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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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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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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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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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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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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I’ve done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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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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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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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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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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