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Barbara Walters

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Barbara Walters
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: September 25
Journalist
News Presenter
Television Presenter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Barbara Jill Walters
Authoritative
Woman
Women
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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.
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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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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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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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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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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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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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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The feeling is that Fidel Castro's much bigger than he actually is.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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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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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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Homogeneity is much to be admired - in milk, for instance - but not for parties.
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The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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A conversation isn't a competition.
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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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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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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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