Quotes by Barbara Walters - Page 2

It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Causes
Facts
Unfortunate
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If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Men
Authority
Literature
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Men
Believe
Compassion
Goodness
Humanity
Nice
Humanity Man World
Basic
Be Nice
Better World
Man World Believe
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Depends
Lines
People
Rumor
Confront
Rumors
Tasteful
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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Success
Women
Edges
Famous Inspirational
Nice
Nice Things
Smooth
Insecurities
Prima
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Dinner
Dinner Guests
Dinner Party
Nbc
Party
Good World Better
Background
Good Better World
Washington
Desk
Grasp
Piles
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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.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Education
Heaven
Mean
Religious
Versions
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The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Media
News
Want
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Obscure
People
Thinking
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Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Crazy
Genius
People
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Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Bears
Challenges
Purpose
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Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Cutting
Hands
Pieces
Hands-On
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Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Fire
Hug
President
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politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Jobs
Conversation
Land
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And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it's enormously comforting to believe that you're going to see your loved ones.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Believe
Comforting
Live Your Life
Loved Ones
Thinking
Life Believe Your
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
The Most Important
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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.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Forbidden
Heaven
Literature
Paradise
Sex
Muslims
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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.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Church
Literature
Superstitions
Synagogue
Pray
Automatically
Plane
Same Thing
Superstition
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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.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Religion
Christ
Christian
Common
Judaism
Literature
Rabbi
Jewish
Based
Christian Religion
Deal
First Of All
Great Deal
Points
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Work harder than everybody. You're not going to get it by whining, and you're not going to get it by shouting, and you're not going to get it by quitting. You're going to get it by being there.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Being There
Hard Work
Quitting
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To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another's life.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Dream
Gains
Helping Others
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I'm a wonderful editor. That's what I do best. I know exactly what I want. If I have to decide whether to wear the red dress or the blue dress or what should I have said, I am constantly changing my mind.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Blue
Red
Editor
Exactly
Exactly What
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Frank
Pushy
Considered
Automatically
Cookie
Interview
Mine
Studio
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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.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Airplane
Clouds
Rainbow
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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.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Space
Airplane
Clouds
Rainbow
Above
Actual
Astronauts
Somewhere
Before
Beyond
Find
Could
Over
Place
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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.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Communicate
Devastated
Joy
Orchestra
People
Thinking
Voice
Totally
All My Life
Life Joy My Life
Life My Life Voice
Phrase
Sing
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People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can't get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You're paying your membership dues in the human race.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Compassion
Race
Self
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Most old people ... are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others - guests who didn't have the good manners to leave when the party was over.
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House
Party
People
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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.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Believe
Better Place
Buddhism
Exception
Heaven
Program
Teach
Tibetan
Religions
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Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don't know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I've rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
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Party
People
Technique
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I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Becoming
Code
Interesting
People
Spiritual
Technically
Increasingly
Oriented
Same Time
Time People
Yawn
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Don't worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Heart
President
Worry
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This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don't fight the little fight... Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don't whine, and don't be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Badass
Battle
Fighting
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The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn't perfect at any age - drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter - but it is almost non-existent in old people.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
People
Perfect
Talking
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I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews 'fiery debates.' During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Democracy
Together
Years
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The word 'charismatic' was made for Fidel Castro. You would have liked him, I would have liked him. Then you had to stop and say, 'Just a minute. This is a man who does not believe in freedom of the press...does not believe in democracy as we know democracy, had political prisoners.'
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Men
Believe
Political
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A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine and that's all right; she can work, she can stay at home; she can be aggressive; she can be passive; she can be any way she wants with a man. But whenever there are the kinds of choices there are today, unless you have some solid base, life can be frightening.
Barbara Walters / Journalist
Life
Work
Home
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I happen to disagree with the well-entrenched theory that the art of conversation is merely the art of being a good listener. Such advice invites people to be cynical with one another and full of fake; when a conversation becomes a monologue, poked along with tiny cattle-prod questions, it isn't a conversation any more.
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Art
Women
People
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