Quotes by Barbara Walters

About Barbara Walters:

Barbara Walters is an American broadcast journalist, author and television personality. She has hosted morning television shows Today and The View, the television news magazine 20/20, co-anchored the ABC Evening News, and was a contributor to ABC News.
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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.

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All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in com...

Barbara Walters

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.

Barbara Walters

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.

Barbara Walters

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

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Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.

Barbara Walters

When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.

Barbara Walters

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

Barbara Walters

I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.

Barbara Walters

If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.

Barbara Walters

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

Barbara Walters

Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.

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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.

Barbara Walters

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

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

Barbara Walters

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.

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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameBarbara Walters
  • DescriptionAmerican broadcast journalist, author, and television personality
  • BornSeptember 25, 1929
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Television Presenter; Writer; News Presenter