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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy

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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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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.
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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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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.
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Homogeneity is much to be admired - in milk, for instance - but not for parties.
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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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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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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.
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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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I didn't have a very religious family.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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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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Don't let the bastards get you down.
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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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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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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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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 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.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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