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Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.
Barbara Walters
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Barbara Walters
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: September 25
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Boston
Massachusetts
Barbara Jill Walters
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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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Children are God's way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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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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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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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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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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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I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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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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.
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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 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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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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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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A conversation isn't a competition.
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