For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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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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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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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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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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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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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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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
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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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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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