The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
BARBARA WALTERSNew 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
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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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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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It’s a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
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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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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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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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I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code – even though it was a great yawn – also showed people’s interest in religion.
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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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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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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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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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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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It’s a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
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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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