Barbara Walters Quotes
Now here I was, half Jane Wyman, half Shirley Temple, and people began to stop me in the street and say, 'Don't worry, Barbara, it's all right, you won't lose your job.' It was really very touching.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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I love coming to India, and I find the people out here very warm and social as compared to people in the U.S.
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My social circle, my best friends, are all people that I met at UCB.
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Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman's bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can't we be friendly?
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The answer I have is, you know, there a lot of things you can try to build to last. And what we try to do in our work is to come up with ideas that will last. Ideas that will stand the test of time.
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Now here I was, half Jane Wyman, half Shirley Temple, and people began to stop me in the street and say, 'Don't worry, Barbara, it's all right, you won't lose your job.' It was really very touching.
