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Barbara Walters

Barbara Jill Walters (born September 25, 1929) is an American journalist, writer, and media personality who has been a regular fixture on morning television shows (Today and The View), an evening news magazine (20/20), and co-anchor of ABC Evening News and correspondent on World News (then ABC Evening News). Walters was first known as a popular TV morning news anchor for over 10 years on NBC's Today, where she worked with Hugh Downs and later hosts Frank McGee and Jim Hartz. Walters later spent 25 years as co-host of ABC's newsmagazine 20/20. She was the first female co-anchor of network evening news, working with Harry Reasoner on the ABC Evening News and was later a correspondent for ABC World News Tonight

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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.

– Barbara Walters

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I used to be criticized for asking those kinds of questions: doesn’t matter, what do we care what he or she thinks? The most important thing is only the hard news question. I don’t think so, i think it’s important to know what’s important to them. You have to find out, if you can, what makes someone tick.

– Barbara Walters

Found on CNN 1 year ago

I’m fascinated by the personality of our leaders. Who are they? What do they believe in?

– Barbara Walters

Found on CNN 1 year ago

I knew it was time, i like all the celebration, that’s great, but in my heart, I thought, ‘I want to walk away while I’m still doing good work.’ So I will.

– Barbara Walters

Found on CNN 1 year ago

How do you say goodbye to something like 50 years in television? how proud when I see all the young women who are making and reporting the news. If I did anything to help make that happen, that is my legacy. From the bottom of my heart, to all of you with whom I have worked and who have watched and been by my side, I can say: ‘Thank you.’.

– Barbara Walters

Found on CNN 1 year ago

In 2000, I pushed Ricky Martin very hard to admit if he was gay or not, and the way he refused to do it made everyone decide that he was, a lot of people say that destroyed his career, and when I think back on it now I feel it was an inappropriate question.

– Barbara Walters

Found on FOX News 2 years ago

I'm not going to sit there and get reprimanded on the air, what the f ---... this woman is driving me nuts.

– Barbara Walters

Found on CNN 5 years ago

We have to go on and we have to learn how to discuss these things in some sort of rational way.

– Barbara Walters

Found on CNN 5 years ago

I don’t think that I was very good at marriage, it may be that my career was just too important. It may have been that I was a difficult person to be married to, and I just seem to be better alone. I ’m not lonely, I ’m alone.

– Barbara Walters

Found on FOX News 6 years ago

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