63 Quotes by Barbara Walters
Barbara Walters is an iconic American journalist, television personality, and trailblazer for women in the field of broadcast journalism. Born in 1929, Walters has had a remarkable career spanning several decades, during which she interviewed countless world leaders, celebrities, and newsmakers. She broke barriers as the first female co-anchor of a network evening news program and went on to become a co-host of the popular morning show "The View."
Walters's interviewing style was characterized by her ability to ask tough questions and elicit candid responses from her subjects. Her interviews became renowned for their depth, sensitivity, and ability to humanize public figures. Walters's impact extends beyond her interviewing skills; she paved the way for women in the male-dominated field of broadcast journalism and inspired countless aspiring journalists.
Her professionalism, tenacity, and journalistic integrity earned her numerous awards and accolades, and she continues to be recognized as a trailblazer and a respected figure in the industry. Barbara Walters's contributions to journalism have left an indelible mark, and her influence continues to shape the landscape of broadcast journalism today.
Barbara Walters Quotes
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. (Meaning)
First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another's life.
The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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.
Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don't fight the little fight... Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don't whine, and don't be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.
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.
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
Don't worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead.
Children are God's way of punishing us for having sex.
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
Don't let the bastards get you down.
Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.
A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
Homogeneity is much to be admired - in milk, for instance - but not for parties.
The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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 common.
Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.
Politics is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.
If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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.
The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.
When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.
Most old people are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others - guests who didn't have the good manners to leave when the party was over.
Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don't know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I've rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
A conversation isn't a competition.
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.
If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it's enormously comforting to believe that you're going to see your loved ones.
To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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.
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.
Après ski is my favorite sport.
The word 'charismatic' was made for Fidel Castro. You would have liked him, I would have liked him. Then you had to stop and say, 'Just a minute. This is a man who does not believe in freedom of the press...does not believe in democracy as we know democracy, had political prisoners.'
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.
People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can't get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You're paying your membership dues in the human race.
I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?
Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn't perfect at any age - drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter - but it is almost non-existent in old people.
Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
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.
The news media in general are liberals.
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.
Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
The feeling is that Fidel Castro's much bigger than he actually is.
― Barbara Walters Quotes
Barbara Walters (Journalist) Life Highlights
- Barbara Walters was born on September 25, 1929, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- She is a pioneering American journalist, television personality, and author.
- Walters is known for her groundbreaking work in broadcast journalism, particularly as a female trailblazer in a male-dominated industry.
- She started her career as a writer and researcher for NBC's "The Today Show" in the early 1960s.
- Barbara Walters became the first female co-host of "The Today Show" in 1974.
- She is best known for her iconic interview series, "The Barbara Walters Special," where she interviewed prominent figures from various fields, including politics, entertainment, and world affairs.
- Walters's interviews were renowned for their depth, insight, and ability to elicit candid responses from her subjects.
- She conducted a series of notable interviews, including with world leaders like Fidel Castro, Vladimir Putin, and Margaret Thatcher.
- Barbara Walters became the first female co-anchor of a network evening news program when she joined ABC's "World News Tonight" in 1976.
- She co-hosted ABC's "20/20," a news magazine program, and contributed to various other news programs on the network.
- Walters retired from regular on-air appearances in 2014 but continued to work as a producer and contributor for ABC News.
- Throughout her career, she received numerous awards and honors for her journalistic achievements, including multiple Emmy Awards.
- Barbara Walters is regarded as one of the most influential journalists of her time, and her impact on the field of broadcast journalism is immeasurable.
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