I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
BARBARA WALTERSHomogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Après ski is my favorite sport.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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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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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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Because there are so many shows on and because I’ve been so hands-on – I’ve had a piece on almost every single week – I don’t know how to cut back on that. You really can’t.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don’t fight the little fight… Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don’t whine, and don’t be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.
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Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don’t know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I’ve rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
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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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Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.
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Most old people … are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others – guests who didn’t have the good manners to leave when the party was over.
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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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Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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All of the religions – with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn’t believe in a heaven – teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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The news media in general are liberals.
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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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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The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn’t perfect at any age – drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter – but it is almost non-existent in old people.
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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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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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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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