Barbara Walters Quotes
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 guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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Team members have to hold each other accountable. If there's a meeting, all members have to commit to be present and to help one another; they can't just check out when they feel they're not getting any benefits.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.
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Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.
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America can't provide health care to people who need it. We can't invest in science and technology, which will determine whether or not we are going to be competitive in the long term. There has never been a country on Earth that saw its economy decline and yet maintained its military superiority.
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Actors are always looking for ways to build a character.
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It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.
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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.
