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.
BARBARA WALTERSI 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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.
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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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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don’t fight the little fight… Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don’t whine, and don’t be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.
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Because there are so many shows on and because I’ve been so hands-on – I’ve had a piece on almost every single week – I don’t know how to cut back on that. You really can’t.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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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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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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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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