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.
BARBARA WALTERSNo one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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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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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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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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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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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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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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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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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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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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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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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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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