Barbara Walters Quotes
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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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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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
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I didn't have a very religious family.
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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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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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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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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
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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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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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A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
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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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I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family.
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She made me laugh. I will miss her. Baba Wawa.
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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.