No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
BARBARA WALTERSA great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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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.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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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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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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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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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