I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews ‘fiery debates.’ During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.
BARBARA WALTERSAnd 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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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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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.
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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.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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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.
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The news media in general are liberals.
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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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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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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.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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