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Barbara Walters

I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
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Education Mean Religious
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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New Party Person Shallow Year
Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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Creature Dog Love Parents Tough Wonderful Yourself
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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Democracy Together Years
The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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Bigger Castro Feelings
[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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Hands Should Have Want
A 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.
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Command Greatness Intelligence People Thinking Willing Word
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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Approval Comfortable Man
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
Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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Blunt Confusion Stimulation
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
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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People Thinking Voice
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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Difficult Hard Life Purpose Willing Yourself
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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Conversation Jobs Land
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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Beyond Cloud Finding Myself Place Thinking
Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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Blunt Brainstorming Women

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