Barbara Walters Quotes

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

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• A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

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• One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

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• Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.

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• A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

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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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• Because there are so many shows on and because I’ve been so hands-on – I’ve had a piece on almost every single week – I don’t know how to cut back on that. You really can’t.

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• All of the religions – with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn’t believe in a heaven – teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.

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• And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it’s enormously comforting to believe that you’re going to see your loved ones.

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• The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it’s also full of fourth-rate readers.

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  Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

   

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• Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

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• 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 life on earth means.

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• First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

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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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Barbara Walters (29)

Birth:	25th September, 1929
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist

About

Barbara Jill Walters born September 25, 1929 is an American broadcast journalist, author, and television personality. She has hosted morning television shows Today and The View, the television news magazine 20/20, co-anchored the ABC Evening News, and is a contributor to ABC News. She was the first female co-anchor of network evening news, working with Harry Reasoner on ABC News flagship program ABC Evening News.

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