Barbara Walters Quotes
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Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
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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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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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I'm a wonderful editor. That's what I do best. I know exactly what I want. If I have to decide whether to wear the red dress or the blue dress or what should I have said, I am constantly changing my mind.
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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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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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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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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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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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
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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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If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
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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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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 world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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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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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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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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We thought that he was going to be - I shouldn't say this at Christmastime - but the next messiah.
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I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.