A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
BARBARA WALTERSDon’t let the bastards get you down.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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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 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.
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When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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 found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code – even though it was a great yawn – also showed people’s interest in religion.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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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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I 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.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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The word ‘charismatic’ was made for Fidel Castro. You would have liked him, I would have liked him. Then you had to stop and say, ‘Just a minute. This is a man who does not believe in freedom of the press…does not believe in democracy as we know democracy, had political prisoners.’
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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Après ski is my favorite sport.
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