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Children are God's way of punishing us for having sex.

Barbara Walters

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Barbara Walters
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: September 25
Journalist
News Presenter
Television Presenter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Barbara Jill Walters
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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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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 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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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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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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don't know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I've rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro's much bigger than he actually is.
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Homogeneity is much to be admired - in milk, for instance - but not for parties.
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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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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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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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[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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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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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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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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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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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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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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