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BARBARA WALTERSI 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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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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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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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.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be — I shouldn’t say this at Christmastime — but the next messiah.
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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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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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.
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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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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.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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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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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.
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