For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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[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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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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If it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
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A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
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The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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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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Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
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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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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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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 it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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