Barbara Walters

Journalist

1929-09-25 – 2022-12-30

Barbara Walters was an American broadcast journalist and television personality known for pioneering interview formats on network news and daytime television. She co-created The View and interviewed numerous world leaders.

Quotes by Barbara Walters

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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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.
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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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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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I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
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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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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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