Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
BARBARA WALTERSDon’t let the bastards get you down.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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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The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn’t perfect at any age – drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter – but it is almost non-existent in old people.
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Although I myself don’t go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it’s superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
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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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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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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn’t.
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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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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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