| Barbara Walters is known for being a good | | | | once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a |
| talker, so it's no wonder that Barbara | | | | city that moves so fast, it takes energy just |
| Walters quotes are so popular. Whether she's | | | | to stand still." |
| talking about value and self-worth or the | | | | |
| philosophy of life, Barbara Walters quotes | | | | 14. "A great many people think that |
| always prove to be both enlightening and | | | | polysyllables are a sign of intelligence." |
| entertaining. Here are 25 Barbara Walters | | | | |
| quotes in honor of her September 25th | | | | 15. "I was the kind nobody thought could make |
| birthday. | | | | it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't |
| | | | pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty." |
| 1. "Success can make you go one of two ways. | | | | |
| It can make you a prima donna - or it can | | | | 16. "I was a personality before I became a |
| smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, | | | | person." |
| let the nice things come out." | | | | |
| | | | 17. "Trust your gut." |
| 2. "Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax | | | | |
| the mood and, like the child dropping off to | | | | 18. "A woman can do anything. She can be |
| sleep, the subject often reveals his truest | | | | traditionally feminine and that's all right; |
| self." | | | | she can work, she can stay at home; she can |
| | | | be aggressive; she can be passive; she can be |
| 3. "It's a fact that it is much more | | | | any way she wants with a man. But whenever |
| comfortable to be in the position of the | | | | there are the kinds of choices there are |
| person who has been offended than to be the | | | | today, unless you have some solid base, life |
| unfortunate cause of it." | | | | can be frightening." |
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| 4. "Parents of young children should realize | | | | 19. "A man cannot be made comfortable without |
| that few people, and maybe no one, will find | | | | his own approval." |
| their children as enchanting as they do." | | | | |
| | | | 20. "The sports page records people's |
| 5. "Don't confuse being stimulating with | | | | accomplishments, the front page usually |
| being blunt." | | | | records nothing, but man's failures." |
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| 6. "The world may be full of fourth-rate | | | | 21. "I find very often people like to |
| writers but it's also full of fourth-rate | | | | confront rumors. It depends on how much they |
| readers." | | | | trust you. And you have to have a line |
| | | | between what is tasteful and what isn't." |
| 7. "All of the religions - with the exception | | | | |
| of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in | | | | 22. "Most attractive males talk to most |
| a heaven - teach that heaven is a better | | | | attractive women as if they were Rotarians |
| place. At the end of the program, I say that | | | | comparing sales percentages in Des Moines." |
| heaven is a place where you are happy. All of | | | | |
| the religions have that in common." | | | | 23. "Motherhood is tough. If you just want a |
| | | | wonderful little creature to love, you can |
| 8. "Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow | | | | get a puppy." |
| parties." | | | | |
| | | | 24. "I'd had it. Right on the air, in front |
| 9. "I can get a better grasp of what is going | | | | of 10 million people, I said, 'Mr. Beatty, |
| on in the world from one good Washington | | | | you are the most impossible interview I have |
| dinner party than from all the background | | | | ever had...'" |
| information NBC piles on my desk." | | | | |
| | | | 25. "Show me someone who never gossips, and I |
| 10. "I found it interesting that as people | | | | will show you someone who is not interested |
| become more technically oriented all over the | | | | in people." |
| world, at the same time people are becoming | | | | |
| increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da | | | | Barbara Walters is many things -- wise, |
| Vinci Code - even though it was a great yawn | | | | successful, famous, personable... The list |
| - also showed people's interest in religion." | | | | goes on. That may be why so many people |
| | | | listen when Barbara talks. These 25 Barbara |
| 11. "One may walk over the highest mountain | | | | Walters quotes are perfect examples of the |
| one step at a time." | | | | wisdom she so often speaks. |
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| 12. "To feel valued, to know, even if only | | | | For more success quotes, check out the |
| once in a while, that you can do a job well | | | | popular success quotes section at |
| is an absolutely marvelous feeling." | | | | Famous-Quotes-And-Quotations.com, a website |
| | | | that specializes in 'Top 10' lists of |
| 13. "New York is a galaxy of adventure at | | | | quotations in dozens of categories. |