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Barbara Walters
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Barbara Walters
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: September 25
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Barbara Jill Walters
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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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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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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.
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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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If it's a woman, it's caustic if it's a man, it's authoritative.
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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.
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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.
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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.
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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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[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime -- but the next messiah.
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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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The feeling is that Fidel Castro's much bigger than he actually is.
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I didn't have a very religious family.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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