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Barbara Walters
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: September 25
Journalist
News Presenter
Television Presenter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
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Children are God's way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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[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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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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.
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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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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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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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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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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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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 man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews 'fiery debates.' During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.
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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 feeling is that Fidel Castro's much bigger than he actually is.
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Don't let the bastards get you down.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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 have a very religious family.
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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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