Barbara Walters Quotes

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• Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.
• 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…
• Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
• 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…
• 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…
• Work harder than everybody. You're not going to get it by whining, and you're not going to get it by shouting, and you're not going…
• Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and…
• 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.
• Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How…
• For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth. The…
• If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
• Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
• If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
• Don't let the bastards get you down,
• 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…
• I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
• The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
• To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain…
• I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what…
• 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…

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