Barbara Walters
Barbara Walters
Barbara Waltersis an American broadcast journalist, an author, and a television personality...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth25 September 1929
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
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A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine and that's all right; she can work, she can stay at home; she can be aggressive; she can be passive; she can be any way she wants with a man. But whenever there are the kinds of choices there are today, unless you have some solid base, life can be frightening.
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Work harder than everybody. You're not going to get it by whining, and you're not going to get it by shouting, and you're not going to get it by quitting. You're going to get it by being there.
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There was a steam engine running the mill, and they would blow it to call the workers at 8:30 a.m. and at 5 p.m. to tell them it was time to go home. You could hear the whistle all over town. The offices are still there, and the big sheds where they stored the lumber.
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He pushed himself, he pushed us, he made us better. One of the things that I think was very interesting about Peter is that he didn't graduate from high school, and this gave him a kind of insecurity that made him want to work harder, and learn more, ... He wrote like a dream. You would think that he was reading a script, and it was all ad-lib. He was an anchor in every true sense of the word.
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The Saudi people have some disagreements with the United States, in particular when it comes to the issue of the Palestinian question, the war in Afghanistan and the war with Iraq,
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Well, it is a little different showing up at 4:30, 5 in the morning.
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Well, it is a bit different arriving at 4:30 in the morning.
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I would have tried to tell her that this was a relationship that had no future. But have you ever tried to stop a daughter when she is in love from doing anything? It's very hard.
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I found talking to the young failed suicide bomber the most unsettling and depressing - that there could be that much hatred and ignorance.
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I found Monica warm and intelligent and very open. I told her, 'You're very alive.' And she said, 'Maybe that was the appeal (to the president).'
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Since then, every woman on morning programs has been a co-host, and more power to them,
Of course, I'm innocent. Of course, I'm innocent,
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No one could ad lib like Peter. ... You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. Sometimes he drove me crazy because he knew so many details,