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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.

Barbara Walters

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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Children Self Sleep
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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Better Goodness Interview Laughter
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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Approval Comfortable Man
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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Feelings Jobs Women
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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Cuba Earth Yardsticks
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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Drink Earth Heaven Paradise Pleasure Sex Yourself
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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Background Better Information Myself Party World
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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New Party Person Shallow Year
I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn’t.
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Lines People Rumor
I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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Girl Marriage Sleep
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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Interviewing Someone Thinking
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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Career Change Job Life Myself Start Thinking
Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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Children Sex Way
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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Different Education Heaven Life Meaning Religious Version
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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Media News Want
Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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Admire Food Party Milk
The news media in general are liberals.
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General Liberty Media
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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Himself Poet Scripture Thinking
Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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Down Low 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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Dangerous Family Future Job Land Politics Subject
For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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Interview Man Talk
Because there are so many shows on and because I’ve been so hands-on – I’ve had a piece on almost every single week – I don’t know how to cut back on that. You really can’t.
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Cutting Hands Pieces
The word ‘charismatic’ was made for Fidel Castro. You would have liked him, I would have liked him. Then you had to stop and say, ‘Just a minute. This is a man who does not believe in freedom of the press…does not believe in democracy as we know democracy, had political prisoners.’
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Believe Men Political
Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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Gossip People Relationship
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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Everything Heaven Literature Sex
when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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Blame Children Firsts
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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Church Literature Superstitions

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