Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
BARBARA WALTERSNo one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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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.
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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.’
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Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
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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.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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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