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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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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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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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The feeling is that Fidel Castro's much bigger than he actually is.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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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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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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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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Après ski is my favorite sport.
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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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Children are God's way of punishing us for having sex.
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If it's a woman, it's caustic if it's a man, it's authoritative.
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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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Homogeneity is much to be admired - in milk, for instance - but not for parties.
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When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.
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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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I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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