Barbara Walters Quotes

American - Journalist | September 25, 1929 -

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

FunnyBeautyThoughtNobodyKind

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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JobFeelYouFeelingKnowWell

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

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SportsManPeoplePageNothing

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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SleepChildRelaxWaitSelfMoments

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

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WorldMayFullReadersWritersAlso

A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

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ManComfortableWithoutOwnApproval

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

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GreatIntelligencePeopleThinkSign

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

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PeopleMeSomeoneYouWillNever

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.

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GoodDinnerWorldBetterInformation

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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ChildrenParentsPeopleFindYoung

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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ThinkYouWouldLikeHePeter

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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LifeJoyPeopleVoiceThinkMy Life

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