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Barbara Walters
8 quotes
“Now here I was, half Jane Wyman, half Shirley Temple, and people began to stop me in the street and say, 'Don't worry, Barbara, it's all right, you won't lose your job.' It was really very touching.”
Barbara Walters (1929–2022) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chris Chase, "A Talk With the Unsinkable Barbara Walters", New York Magazine (March 25, 1974), Vol. 7, No. 12, p. 62
“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 (1929–2022) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chris Chase, "A Talk With the Unsinkable Barbara Walters", New York Magazine (March 25, 1974), Vol. 7, No. 12, p. 65
“A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.”
Barbara Walters (1929–2022) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How to Talk With Practically Anybody About Practically Anything (1970), p. 136
“Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.”
Barbara Walters (1929–2022) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How to Talk With Practically Anybody About Practically Anything (1970)
“What kind of tree are you, if you think you're a tree now?”
Barbara Walters (1929–2022) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Katharine Hepburn (1981) after she compared herself to a strong tree in old age
“She made me laugh. I will miss her. Baba Wawa.”
Barbara Walters (1929–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime -- but the next messiah.”
Barbara Walters (1929–2022) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Barack Obama, in an interview with Piers Morgan (December 17, 2013)
“I can have respect and admiration for famous people, but I have never had a sense of fear or awe.”
Barbara Walters (1929–2022) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Barbara Walters, trailblazing TV icon, dies at 93" by Luchina Fisher and Bill Hutchinson, ABC News (30 December 2022)