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Barbara Walters
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: September 25
Journalist
News Presenter
Television Presenter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Barbara Jill Walters
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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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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.
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I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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A conversation isn't a competition.
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If it's a woman, it's caustic if it's a man, it's authoritative.
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