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 WALTERSTo feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I’ve done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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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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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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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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politics … is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It’s not only a conversation-wrecker, it’s a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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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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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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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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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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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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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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
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Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
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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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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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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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