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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.

Barbara Walters

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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Democracy Together Years
Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?
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Fire Hug President
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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New Party Person Shallow Year
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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Causes Facts Unfortunate
People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can’t get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You’re paying your membership dues in the human race.
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Compassion Race Self
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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Dream Gains Helping Others
The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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Drawn Hardest Motivation Trust Yourself
Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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Celebrity Defensive Found Mechanism
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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Interviewing Someone Thinking
I didn’t have a very religious family.
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Religious Religious Family
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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Airplane Clouds Rainbow
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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Authority Literature Men
[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be — I shouldn’t say this at Christmastime — but the next messiah.
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Leadership Reality Voting
To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
BARBARA WALTERS

Feeling Job Value Yourself
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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Crazy Genius People
Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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Defensive Mechanism Oysters Same Used

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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