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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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.
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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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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 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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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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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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Don't let the bastards get you down.
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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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Children are God's way of punishing us for having sex.
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Most old people ... are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others - guests who didn't have the good manners to leave when the party was over.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro's much bigger than he actually is.
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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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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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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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Homogeneity is much to be admired - in milk, for instance - but not for parties.
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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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I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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