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Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.

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Barbara Walters
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: September 25
Journalist
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Boston
Massachusetts
Barbara Jill Walters
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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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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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Children are God's way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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A conversation isn't a competition.
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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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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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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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The news media in general are liberals.
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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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Homogeneity is much to be admired - in milk, for instance - but not for parties.
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I didn't have a very religious family.
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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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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 origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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Après ski is my favorite sport.
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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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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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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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