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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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Homogeneity is much to be admired - in milk, for instance - but not for parties.
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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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Après ski is my favorite sport.
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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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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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.
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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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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 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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Don't let the bastards get you down.
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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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People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can't get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You're paying your membership dues in the human race.
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For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
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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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The news media in general are liberals.
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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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Children are God's way of punishing us for having sex.
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