Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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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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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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.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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It’s a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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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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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it’s enormously comforting to believe that you’re going to see your loved ones.
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The news media in general are liberals.
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For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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