Barbara Walters Quotes
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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.
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We thought that he was going to be - I shouldn't say this at Christmastime - but the next messiah.
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I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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I didn't have a very religious family.
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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.
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But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family.
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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.
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All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
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When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.
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A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
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I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
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She made me laugh. I will miss her. Baba Wawa.