Barbara Walters Quotes
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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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.
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Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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I love improvising.
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I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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I'm a real pushover for animals.
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The shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences. No one can say that the O’s roundness appeals to us only because it is like that of an apple or of a girl’s breast or of the full moon. Letters are things, not pictures of things.
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There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty.
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When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance of human beings choose power, greed, and indifference to suffering, the world is filled with war, poverty, and cruelty.
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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.
