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Barbara Walters Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 25, 1929

Topics

Funny Beauty Thought Nobody Kind

I used to joke that, since breastfeeding, my boobs looked like an old athletic sock with some loose change at the bottom, so when I felt a lump the size of a marble, I knew something was terribly wrong.

Jessica St. Clair

Change Wrong Old Size Joke Marble

What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.

Children Respect Best World Deep

I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.

Good Win Game Win Or Lose Think You

People are dangerous when they have nothing to lose.

Stef Wertheimer

People Lose Dangerous Nothing

I don't think Indian actors are good. A couple of them are, like Anupam Kher, but not many are there like him in the industry. There are thousand of actors and actresses in the industry, but you can count on hand how many of them are really good; the rest of them are just pretty faces.

Good Rest Think You Hand Count

I think that taxes have to exist. They should exist at the lowest possible level, and to the extent that we can, we shouldn't invent more. Maybe that's my experience being mayor of New York City, where we had so many taxes.

Experience New York City Think New

Inevitably, there will be many aspects of culture that would benefit from a more reflective or contemplative approach to them.

Culture Will More Would Approach

An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.

World Picture Attention News Paint

My mother turned 40 in 1973. So in 1970 - when 'The Female Eunuch' came out and Ms. magazine was founded - my mom was 37 with two children, and she was just that little bit too old, and the circumstances of her life were set up in a certain way that for her to fulfill her ambitions and dreams, she would have had to break with the family.

Life Family Mother Dreams Children

I think I'm a good actor, but to replicate tens of thousands of man hours in surgery is really hard.

Good Man Think Actor Hard Surgery

When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody.

Washington Out George Washington

In my years of doing the K1 fights, one thing I've learned is that the guys who you think will be there in the end - very rarely do you get the match up you were hoping for.

Think End Doing You Will Up

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