Barbara Walters Quotes

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• 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 is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another's life.

  Barbara Walters

  Dream, Helping Others, Gains

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• The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.

  Barbara Walters

  Motivation, Trust Yourself, Drawn Together

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• 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 to get it by quitting. You're going to get it by being there.

  Barbara Walters

  Hard Work, Quitting, Being There

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• 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 your life can have a purpose.

  Barbara Walters

  Challenges, Purpose, Bears

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• A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.

  Barbara Walters

  Laughter, Humor, Laughing

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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.

  Barbara Walters

  Badass, Fighting, Battle

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• A conversation isn't a competition.

  Barbara Walters

  Competition, Conversation

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• Don't let the bastards get you down.

  Barbara Walters

  Entrepreneur, Best Business, Successful Entrepreneurs

  Barbara Walters (2008). “Audition”, p.297, Vintage

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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.

  Barbara Walters

  Success, Nice, Women

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• A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.

  Barbara Walters

  Ice Cream, Ideas, Heaven

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• Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

  Barbara Walters

  Relationship, People, Gossip

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

  Barbara Walters

  Sex, Children, Way

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• Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.

  Barbara Walters

  Jobs, Fighting, Complaining

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• politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.

  Barbara Walters

  Jobs, Land, Conversation

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• The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.

  Barbara Walters

  Clothes, People, Dresses

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• Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

  Barbara Walters

  New Year, Party, Shallow Person

  "How to Talk With Practically Anybody About Practically Anything". Book by Barbara Walters, 1970.

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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.

  Barbara Walters

  Nice, Believe, Men

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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.

  Barbara Walters

  Men, Literature, Authority

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• If you were a tree, what kind would you be?

  Barbara Walters

  Tree, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Kind

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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.

  Barbara Walters

  Crazy, People, Genius

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• when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.

  Barbara Walters

  Children, Firsts, Blame

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• A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.

  Barbara Walters

  Jobs, Work, Thinking

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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.

  Barbara Walters

  Boston, Achievement, Kind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Barbara Walters

  Inspirational, Women, Acceptance

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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.

  Barbara Walters

  Jobs, Women, Feelings

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