Barbara Walters: Quotes about people

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“The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.”

Barbara Walters

Occasionally attributed to Walters; actually said by Earl Warren, as quoted in Sports Illustrated (July 22, 1968).
Misattributed

“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

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

How to Talk With Practically Anybody About Practically Anything (1970), p. 136.

“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.”

Barbara Walters

It was really very touching.
Chris Chase, "A Talk With the Unsinkable Barbara Walters", New York Magazine (March 25, 1974), Vol. 7, No. 12, p. 62.