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All Quotes by author - Barbara Walters

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties. "

" Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt. "

" 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 information NBC piles on my desk. "

" I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't. "

" If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative. "

" I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met. "

" Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy. "

" No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't. "

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

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

" Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people. "

" 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. "

" The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures. "

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

" To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling. "

" 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. "

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

" 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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