Barbara Walters Quotes
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.
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Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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Many people focus on my power and talk about my power, but I have many more qualities in the ring. I like to surprise everyone.
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When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
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There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.
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I recommend people develop a fear of elevators, like I have. Even if something is on the tenth floor, I'm walking up. If you don't have claustrophobia, pretend you do and take the stairs everywhere! It ends up being so healthy!
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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In Majorca, I can be myself. I go to the supermarket and the cinema, and I am just Rafa. Everyone knows me, and it is no big deal. I can go all day - no photographs.
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I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
