For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
BARBARA WALTERSWork 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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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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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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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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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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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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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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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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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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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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