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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Right

• [Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.

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  Topics in Expectations

• Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.

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  Tags in Vices, Foibles

• A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.

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  Topics in Work

• Trust your gut.

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  Tags in Instincts

• 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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  Tags in Self-Confidence

• Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

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  Tags in Self-Control

• Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.

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  Tags in Self Acceptance

• I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

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  Tags in Television

Barbara Walters (29)

Birth:	25th September, 1929
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist

About

Barbara Jill Walters born September 25, 1929 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 is a contributor to ABC News. She was the first female co-anchor of network evening news, working with Harry Reasoner on ABC News flagship program ABC Evening News.

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