Barbara Walters Quotes

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

Barbara Walters

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I can't learn in school, but I can learn from somebody who I think is cool and great.

Jimmy Iovine

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Being a celebrity or anything else where you're really ambitious, it's really a game to see how successful you can get.

Joe Rogan

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I love to reread, even more than I like to read, so keeping a hold of books that I adore is very important, although they flee from me - they are always fleeing.

Jesse Ball

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Kids know. They know everything. I would err on the side of pretty much sharing everything.

Michael Douglas

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My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.

Steve Earle

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My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance.

Steven Pinker

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I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.

Tracy Kidder

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Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

Joseph Barbera

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You know I'm an actress, not just a funny lady.

Doris Roberts

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Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.

Donald Judd

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I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

Bobby Fischer

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As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

William Shakespeare

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