No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
BARBARA WALTERSIf it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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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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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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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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For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
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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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Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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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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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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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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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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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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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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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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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