No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
BARBARA WALTERSAll of the religions – with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn’t believe in a heaven – teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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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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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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The news media in general are liberals.
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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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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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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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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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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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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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All of the religions – with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn’t believe in a heaven – teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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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 hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.
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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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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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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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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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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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