Barbara Walters Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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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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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
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When I go out and I'm presenting the best side of myself, I want to look different from everyone, but I don't want it to look like I'm wearing a costume.
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I've done a lot of costume dramas and things that are set in the past, and it's great to be able to have things that you can research and material that you can look at.
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When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.
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There's no business like show business.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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My parents did everything possible. My dad has worked from eight in the morning until nine in the evening to make it possible so I can play tennis. We had to cancel tournaments because we couldn't afford to go there.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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I never thought about money; otherwise, I would have left aged 26 when Real Madrid and Barcelona wanted me.
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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.
