For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
BARBARA WALTERSDon’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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 man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn’t.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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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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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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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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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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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And 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.
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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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New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It’s a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
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