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.
BARBARA WALTERSI think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.
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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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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.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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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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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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Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don’t know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I’ve rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
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